and mouldering tombs") has led to his being placed amongst the 18th century "Graveyard School" of poets, rendering his work an important influence on Horace Walpole's "The Castle of Otranto" of 1764 and consequently, the entire genre of Gothic literature and the later Romanticism which the genre fuelled. References Attribution External links Online edition of Hervey's Meditations and Contemplations Online edition of Hervey's Theron and Aspasio 1714 births 1758 deaths People from Hardingstone Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford 18th-century English Anglican priests People educated at Northampton School for Boys Early modern Christian devotional writers