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“virtue” across the centuries

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virtues 3 poems

Bar length = percentage of poems in that cohort whose critique surfaced this theme. Click an era to focus the poem list below (click again to show samples from all eras).

pre-1500 1 / 30 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 2 / 10 1550s 2 / 90 1600s 2 / 176 1650s 0 / 59 1700s 0 / 34 1750s 5 / 163 1800s 7 / 685 1850s 3 / 944 1900s 0 / 1120 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1500s · 2 with this theme Show all eras

A True Love
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A True Love

by Nicholas Grimald · English

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c. 1519 - c. May 1562 (~43)

Give Place, Ye Lovers
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Give Place, Ye Lovers

by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey · English

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c. 1517 - 19 January 1547 (~30)

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