James Hervey

Eric Parisot

James Hervey

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Abstract

James Hervey (1714-1758) was a Church of England minister and writer, whose Meditations among the Tombs (1746) is now most notably recognised as a prose counterpart to contemporaneous “graveyard poetry” and for its proto-Gothic aesthetics. Educated at Oxford (and later in life at Cambridge), Hervey joined the Oxford Methodists under the influence of John Wesley in 1733, and was well acquainted with prominent evangelical clergymen such as George Whitefield, Isaac Watts and Philip Doddridge for much of his life. Describing himself as a “moderate Calvinist”, Hervey’s religious life was imbued with a devotion to the gospel and the renunciation of earthly things.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Literary Encyclopedia
Subtitle of host publication	exploring literature, history and culture
Editors	Paul Baines, Daniel Cook, Pat Rogers, Nicholas Seager
Publisher	The Literary Dictionary Company
Volume	1.2.1.05
ISBN (Print)	1747-678X
Publication status	Published - 15 Feb 2017

Keywords

poets
proto-Gothics
Graveyard poetry

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