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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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“dead” 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 1 / 28 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 9 1550s 0 / 89 1600s 0 / 176 1650s 1 / 57 1700s 1 / 34 1750s 3 / 162 1800s 26 / 683 1850s 47 / 939 1900s 41 / 1115 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1750s · 3 with this theme Show all eras

Crazy Sally!
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Crazy Sally!

by Amelia Alderson Opie · English

Amelia Alderson Opie portrait

12 November 1769 - 2 December 1853 (~84)

Ode Written in the Year 1746
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Ode Written in the Year 1746

by WIlliam Collins · English

WIlliam Collins portrait

25 December 1721 - 12 June 1759 (~38)

The Dead Beggar
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The Dead Beggar

by Charlotte Smith · English

Charlotte Smith portrait

4 May 1749 - 28 October 1806 (~57)

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