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“music” across the centuries

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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 1 / 12 1500s 1 / 10 1550s 8 / 91 1600s 17 / 178 1650s 1 / 60 1700s 0 / 35 1750s 2 / 164 1800s 18 / 687 1850s 18 / 950 1900s 39 / 1128 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1750s · 2 with this theme Show all eras

Music
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Music

by William Lisle Bowles · English

William Lisle Bowles portrait

24 September 1762 - 7 April 1850 (~88)

Sweet Power of Song
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Sweet Power of Song

by Joanna Baillie · English

Joanna Baillie portrait

11 September 1762 - 23 February 1851 (~89)

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