Index

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Addison, Joseph48–49, 50–51, 74 n.20

Adorno, Theodor4–5, 25–26 n.64, 29–30 n.71, 154–155

aesthetic craft6–7, 8–10, 15–16, 33, 48–49, 68–69, 70–71, 133–134, 135–136 n.22

affect8–9, 11–12, 23–24, 26–27, 97–98, 106–107, 124–125, 135–137
anxiety4–5, 12–13, 30–32, 41–42, 48–49, 50–51 n.30, 53–54, 56–57, 61, 66, 73–74, 112–113, 115–116, 162–163
confusion25–26, 51, 129–132, 137
grief14, 26–27, 33–35, 46, 53–54, 80–82, 93–94, 96–102, 104–107, 112–113, 116–117, 118–119, 122–123, 131–132, 147–149 See also elegy
rage97–98, 101–102, 105–106, 124–125
theories of6–7, 11–12, 25–26, 29–32, 35–37, 117 See also Berlant, Lauren, and Williams, Raymond

apostrophe57, 92–93, 96, 99–100, 101–104, 119–120, 122–125

Armstrong, Isobel5–6 n.16, 33–35 n.86, 93–94 n.54, 114–115

Barrell, John22 n.51, 75–76 n.28, 87–88, 137–138, 148 n.34
and Harriet Guest50–51, 135–137

Berlant, Lauren
and affect6–7, 15–16 n. 35, 25–26
‘The Female Complaint’101–102, 121
and genre36–37

biography9–10, 70–71

Blair, Hugh
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres8–9, 49–50 n.29, 50–51, 74 n.22, 75–76, 135–136

Blair, Robert
The Grave1–4, 11–12, 17–18, 21, 29–30, 32–33, 39–67, 68–69, 109–110

body
and death See death
in elegy21, 23–24, 96
and gender See gender
in georgic11–12, 21, 32–33, 39
in pastoral12–13, 68
and pleasure25–26, 68–69
and poetry8–9, 23–24, 26–38, 40–41, 48–49, 139–140, 155, 162–163
resurrection of the47–48, 55–56, 60–61, 64–65, 116–117 See also religion, afterlife
and work5–7, 8–9, 11–12, 13–14, 17–18, 21, 23, 25–26, 32–33, 37, 40–42, 43–54, 56–57, 61, 68–70, 75–77, 79, 83–86, 126–128, 145–147, 149–150, 160–162

Butler, Judith25–26 n.60, 33–35

Caillois, Roger18–19, 112–113

capital4–9, 15–18, 25–26, 37–38, 41–42, 84–85, 128–129, 133–136, 158, 162 See also enclosure
industry2–4, 5–6, 7–8, 14–15, 39–40, 47–48, 130–131, 132–134, 143–144, 147–148

cemeteries2–4, 20–21

Clare, John9–10, 35–36, 41–42, 69–71, 126–156
‘The Churchyard’ (‘Look on this dust’)152–153
‘The Churchyard’ (‘The graves of those we loved’)152
‘In Helpstone Church Yard’151
‘Lines Written While Viewing Some Remains of an Human Body in Lolham Lane’139
‘Thoughts in a Churchyard’126–128
‘The Village Minstrel’14–15, 39–40, 128–130, 131–132, 133–137, 139–156

climate See environment

complaint See elegy

Cowper, William9–10, 39–40, 134–135

death See also religion, afterlife
and burial5–6, 10–11, 17–21, 47–48, 52, 54–55, 57–59, 65, 73–74 n.15, 84, 96–97, 110–111, 125, 142–143, 157, 162
and mourning14, 29–30, 53–54, 57, 80–81, 96–98, 106–107, 112–113, 116–117, 118–119, 121–122, 162 See also elegy
and resurrection See body, resurrection of the

Denham, John13–14, 87–88, 90

Doody, Margaret Anne29–30 n.72, 33–35 n.86, 68–69, 72–73, 76–77 n.32, 86–87 n.40, 124 n.63

Dryden, John See Virgil

elegy12–14, 35–37, 53–54, 75–76, 81–82, 96–125, 129–130, 148–149 See also Gray, Thomas

enclosure7–8, 9–10, 14–15, 128–132, 136–138, 139–140, 147–148

environment5–6, 15–16, 39–40, 86–87, 113

epitaph40–41, 72, 93–94, 100–101, 102–103, 114–115, 126–127, 138, 151, 157

Fairer, David39–40, 43–44, 45 n.17, 53, 70–71, 74, 78–79, 92–93

François, Anne-Lise75, 104–105 n.24, 129–130, 154–155 n.41, 160–162 n.11

Gay, John74, 76–77

gender2–4, 25–26, 27–28 n.69, 29–30 n.71, 33–36, 68–74, 80, 89–90, 101–103, 104–105, 106–107, 119–120
and genre2–4, 72–73, 76–77, 88, 104–107, 121
women poets4–5, 14, 33–35 See also Leapor, Mary, Smith, Charlotte, and Yearsley, Ann

genre, theories of10–11, 15–16, 35–37

georgic4–5 n.13, 11–12, 21, 32–33, 35–36, 39–68, 73–74, 75–76, 129–130, 131–132, 140–141, 144 See also Virgil

Goodman, Kevis4–5 n.13, 11–12, 25–26, 32–33, 43–46, 53–54

Gothic1–2 n.3, 17–18, 40–41, 109–110

Gray, Thomas
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard1–2, 7–8, 14, 20–21, 22–26, 97–101, 105–106, 108–110, 138–139, 150–151
‘Sonnet on the Death of Richard West’116–117, 121–122

‘graveyard poetry’1–4, 9–11, 17–18, 33, 40–41, 162–163

‘graveyard school’ See ‘graveyard poetry’

Hervey, James
Meditations Among the Tombs11–12

history
aesthetic responses to2–9, 11–12, 15–16, 22, 25–26
as trauma See trauma

interpretation, methods of4–5, 6–7, 9–10, 11–12, 15–16, 22, 23–24, 29–30

Jameson, Fredric4–5, 25–26

Johnson, Barbara33–35, 99–100, 102–103, 104–105, 110–111 n.37, 119–120 n.61, 122

Johnson, Samuel73–74 n.18, n.22, 87–88

Keats, John25–26 n.64, 130–132

Kristeva, Julia54–55, 115–117

labouring-class poetry2–5, 11–12, 15–16, 21, 33, 35–36, 39–40, 48–49 See also Clare, John, Leapor, Mary, and Yearsley, Ann

Landry, Donna4–5, 70–71, 75–76, 80, 93–94

Leapor, Mary9–10, 35–36, 68–95
‘Colinetta’12–13, 26–27, 39–40, 72–86
‘Corydon. Phillario. Or, Mira’s Picture. A Pastoral’76–77
‘The Epistle of Deborah Dough’79
‘An Essay on Hope’79
‘The Inspired Quill’79
‘Minutius. Artemisia. A Dialogue’79
‘The Ten-Penny Nail’79
‘On Winter’79

Lesjak, Carolyn7–8 n.22, 15–16, 129–130 n.5, 148 n.34, 152–153

Levinson, Marjorie2–4, 5–6 n.16, 22 n.52, 160–162 n.10

long poem14–15, 134–137

lyric5–6, 43, 99–100, 102–103, 151–156
New Lyric Studies29–30

Milton, John7–8, 45–46, 134–135
‘Lycidas’14, 99–101, 104–105, 116–117
Paradise Lost45, 61–62
Paradise Regained45

Nealon, Christopher4–5, 15–16 n.35, 25–26 n.59, n.64, 27–28

Nersessian, Anahid2–4, 5–6, 15–16 n.34, 23–24, 25–26 n.64, 102–103, 130–131, 160–162 n.10

Parisot, Eric1–2, 10–11, 17–18, 40–41, 65–66

Parnell, Thomas
‘A Night-Piece on Death’1–4, 17–18, 20–21

pastoral12–13, 20–21, 23, 61–62, 63–64, 68–96, 99–101, 130–132, 137, 144, 148

Pope, Alexander7–8, 73–75, 87–88
Pastorals76–78, 81–82, 83–84, 99–101

pre-Romantic7–8, 17–18, 23–24 n.55, 29–30

religion1–2, 7–8 n.21, 11–12, 17–18, 41–42, 48–49, 53–57, 78–79 n.34, 91–93, 97–98, 109–111
afterlife1–2 n.3, 8–9, 11–12, 17–18, 19–21, 32–33, 39–42, 55–57, 65–67, 109–110

Romanticism2–4, 7–8, 10–11, 29–30, 101–102, 105–106, 132–133, 143–144 See also Clare, John, Smith, Charlotte, and Wordsworth, William

sensibility10–11, 122

Shenstone, William14, 98, 100–101

Smith, Charlotte9–10, 21, 33–36, 88, 96–125
‘Beachy Head’107–108, 113–115
‘The Dead Beggar’96–98
‘Elegy’14, 97–98, 101–102, 103–104, 106–107, 118–125
‘Sonnet XLIV. Written in the Church-Yard at Middleton in Sussex’14, 26–27, 97–98, 101–102, 103–104, 106–117

Sitter, John7–8, 22, 124 n.63

Somervell, Tess39–40 n.5, 45 n.18, 63–64, 129–130 n.4, 134–135

soul See religion

Stewart, Dustin D.7–8 n.21, 29–30 n.74, 45 n.19, 55–57

Stewart, Susan27–28, 88 n.47, 110–111

style15–16, 45, 47–51, 73–75, 98, 134–135, 152–153 n.40

Thomson, James35–36, 39–40, 45–46, 98–99, 134–135, 138

time
and capital4–6, 14–15, 128–130, 131–134
memory19–22, 92–94, 109–110, 116–117, 126–127, 134–135, 137, 144, 147–149, 158
nostalgia12–13, 21 See also pastoral
in poetry8–9, 14–15, 23, 27–28, 32–33, 36–38, 55–56, 63–64, 92–94, 113–114, 126–156
seasons14–15, 32–33, 50–51, 53, 59–61, 63–64, 73–74, 79–83, 84–86, 89–90, 128–130, 131–134, 141, 145–146, 147–149

tone See style

topographical poetry13–14, 23–24, 86–95, 114

Trapp, Joseph
Lectures on Poetry48–49 n.27, 49–50 n.29, 74–75, 98, 100–101, 103–104

trauma5–6, 8–10, 14–16, 25–26 n.64, 39–40, 76, 88, 93–94, 96–97, 103–104, 128–132, 148, 160–162

Vico, Giambattista18–19, 116–117

Virgil
Eclogues12–13, 73–75
Georgics11–12, 32–33, 37–38, 39–40, 43–47, 48–54, 58–59

Warton, Joseph7–8, 49–51, 73–74, 74 n.22, 75

Williams, Raymond37, 73–74
‘structure of feeling’4–5, 9–10, 25–26, 30–32, 37–38, 105–106, 139

Wordsworth, William2–4, 22 n.52, 39–40, 130–131, 157–163
‘The Brothers’159
‘Essays upon Epitaphs’157–158
The Excursion39–40, 53–54, 134–135, 160
‘We Are Seven’159

Yearsley, Ann9–10, 68–95
‘Clifton Hill. Written in January 1785’13–14, 32–33, 86–95
‘Soliloquy’86–87

Young, Edward
Night Thoughts1–4, 7–8 n.21, 17–18, 29–30, 56–57, 134–135