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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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“summer” 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 / 29 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 10 1550s 1 / 89 1600s 1 / 176 1650s 1 / 57 1700s 0 / 34 1750s 6 / 163 1800s 7 / 684 1850s 26 / 941 1900s 10 / 1119 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1750s · 6 with this theme Show all eras

London's Summer Morning
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London's Summer Morning

by Mary Robinson · English

Mary Robinson portrait

27 November 1757 - 26 December 1800 (~43)

Oh! when 'tis summer weather
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Oh! when 'tis summer weather

by William Lisle Bowles · English

William Lisle Bowles portrait

24 September 1762 - 7 April 1850 (~88)

The Author's Life
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The Author's Life

by Robert Fergusson · English

Robert Fergusson portrait

5 September 1750 - 16 October 1774 (~24)

The Dragonfly and the Ant
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The Dragonfly and the Ant

by Ivan Krylov · Russian

Ivan Krylov portrait

13 February 1769 - 21 November 1844 (~75)

The Schoolboy
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The Schoolboy

by William Blake · English

William Blake portrait

28 November 1757 - 12 August 1827 (~70)

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