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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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“restoration” across the centuries

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 / 30 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 10 1550s 0 / 91 1600s 0 / 177 1650s 15 / 60 1700s 1 / 35 1750s 0 / 164 1800s 0 / 687 1850s 1 / 948 1900s 0 / 1124 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1650s · 15 with this theme Show all eras

A Ballad by the Lord Dorset when at Sea

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A Ballad by the Lord Dorset when at Sea

by Charles Sackville · English

24 January 1643 - 29 January 1706 (~63)

A Catch

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A Catch

by Alexander Brome · English

1620 - 30 June 1666 (~46)

A Quiet Soul

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A Quiet Soul

by John Oldham · English

9 August 1653 - 9 December 1683 (~30)

Against Indifference

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Against Indifference

by Charles Webbe · English

c. 1650 - c. 1680 (~30)

An Ode to Love

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An Ode to Love

by Aphra Behn · English

1640 - 16 April 1689 (~49)

Chloe Divine

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Chloe Divine

by Thomas d'Urfey · English

c. 1653 - 26 February 1723 (~70)

Fair, sweet, and young

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Fair, sweet, and young

by John Dryden · English

9 August 1631 - 12 May 1700 (~69)

Phillis is my only Joy

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Phillis is my only Joy

by Sir Charles Sedley · English

March 1639 - 20 August 1701 (~62)

Prepare, prepare

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Prepare, prepare

by Thomas Shadwell · English

c. 1642 - 19 November 1692 (~50)

Rivals

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Rivals

by William Walsh · English

6 October 1662 - 15 March 1708 (~46)

The Enchantment

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The Enchantment

by Thomas Otway · English

3 March 1652 - 14 April 1685 (~33)

The Imperfect Enjoyment

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The Imperfect Enjoyment

by John Wilmot · English

1 April 1647 - 26 July 1680 (~33)

The Reconcilement

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The Reconcilement

by John Sheffield · English

8 September 1647 - 24 February 1721 (~74)

To a Lady, Asking Him How Long He Would Love Her

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To a Lady, Asking Him How Long He Would Love Her

by Sir George Etherege · English

c. 1635 - c. 10 May 1692 (~57)

What have I left to doe but dye

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What have I left to doe but dye

by Charles Cotton · English

28 April 1630 - 16 February 1687 (~57)

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