graveyard poetry

noun

A type of morbid poetry which lingers on human mortality, tombs, and burial grounds, popular in the preromantic period of 18th-century Britain.

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noungraveyard poetry (uncountable)
  1. uncountablecommunicationsA type of morbid poetry which lingers on human mortality, tombs, and burial grounds, popular in the preromantic period of 18th-century Britain.
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