‘Let’s talk of graves, worms, and epitaphs’
Aug 05, 2020
2 minutes
Jonathan Self
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PRESS’D by the Moon, mute arbitress of tides,/ While the loud equinox its power combines,’ opens Charlotte Smith’s evocative, heart-rending sonnet about the graveyard at Middleton in West Sussex, written after she learnt that it was falling into the sea. Smith, a member of the 18th-century Graveyard School of poets somewhat obsessed with the transitory nature of life,
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