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Pick a theme and see how often it shows up across 50-year cohorts of V2Melody poets. Bars are normalised so small cohorts don't get drowned out by large ones.

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“dream” across the centuries

Related terms Include related catalogue terms in the chart (each poem counted once per era, even if it has several tags).
dreams 23 poems dreamer 5 poems dreaming 2 poems dreamlike 1 poem dreamers 1 poem dreame 1 poem daydream 1 poem dream'd 1 poem

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 0 / 29 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 10 1550s 2 / 89 1600s 2 / 176 1650s 0 / 57 1700s 0 / 34 1750s 3 / 163 1800s 10 / 684 1850s 21 / 939 1900s 22 / 1119 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1600s · 2 with this theme Show all eras

The Dreame
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The Dreame

by John Donne · English

John Donne portrait

1572 - 31 March 1631 (~59)

The Dreame
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The Dreame

by Ben Jonson · English

Ben Jonson portrait

c. 11 June 1572 - 6 August 1637 (~65)

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