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“virtue” across the centuries

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virtues 3 poems

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 / 30 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 2 / 10 1550s 2 / 90 1600s 2 / 176 1650s 0 / 59 1700s 0 / 34 1750s 5 / 163 1800s 7 / 686 1850s 3 / 944 1900s 0 / 1121 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1750s · 5 with this theme Show all eras

Enquiry After Happiness
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Enquiry After Happiness

by Thomas Chatterton · English

Thomas Chatterton portrait

20 November 1752 - 24 August 1770 (~18)

Late Wisdom
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Late Wisdom

by George Crabbe · English

George Crabbe portrait

24 December 1754 - 3 February 1832 (~78)

On a Friend
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On a Friend

by Robert Burns · English

Robert Burns portrait

25 January 1759 - 21 July 1796 (~37)

The Lily
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The Lily

by William Blake · English

William Blake portrait

28 November 1757 - 12 August 1827 (~70)

To Delia
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To Delia

by John Scott · English

John Scott portrait

9 January 1730 - 12 December 1783 (~53)

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