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“landscape” 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 / 28 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 9 1550s 1 / 89 1600s 0 / 176 1650s 0 / 57 1700s 0 / 34 1750s 5 / 161 1800s 29 / 683 1850s 29 / 937 1900s 31 / 1115 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1800s · 29 with this theme Show all eras

A little while

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A little while

by Emily Brontë · English

30 July 1818 - 19 December 1848 (~30)

A Song of Autumn

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A Song of Autumn

by Arthur Hugh Clough · English

1 January 1819 - 13 November 1861 (~42)

A Spring Morning

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A Spring Morning

by John Clare · English

13 July 1793 - 20 May 1864 (~71)

Age

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Age

by William Bell Scott · English

12 September 1811 - 22 November 1890 (~79)

An April Day

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An April Day

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · English

27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)

Calm is all nature

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Calm is all nature

by William Wordsworth · English

7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850 (~80)

Changed

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Changed

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · English

27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)

Composed In the Valley near Dover

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Composed In the Valley near Dover

by William Wordsworth · English

7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850 (~80)

Culture

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Culture

by Ralph Waldo Emerson · English

25 May 1803 - 27 April 1882 (~79)

Hohenlinden

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Hohenlinden

by Thomas Campbell · English

27 July 1777 - 15 June 1844 (~67)

I saw the moon rise clear

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I saw the moon rise clear

by Thomas Moore · English

28 May 1779 - 25 February 1852 (~73)

Loch na Garr

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Loch na Garr

by Lord Byron · English

22 January 1788 - 19 April 1824 (~36)

Mild the mist upon the hill

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Mild the mist upon the hill

by Emily Brontë · English

30 July 1818 - 19 December 1848 (~30)

November

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November

by John Keble · English

25 April 1792 - 29 March 1866 (~74)

Ode: Autumn

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Ode: Autumn

by Thomas Hood · English

23 May 1799 - 3 May 1845 (~46)

Oh Fairest of the Rural Maids

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Oh Fairest of the Rural Maids

by William Cullen Bryant · English

3 November 1794 - 12 June 1878 (~84)

On His Poems

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On His Poems

by Walter Savage Landor · English

30 January 1775 - 17 September 1864 (~89)

One gloomy eve I roam’d about

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One gloomy eve I roam’d about

by John Clare · English

13 July 1793 - 20 May 1864 (~71)

Patty

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Patty

by John Clare · English

13 July 1793 - 20 May 1864 (~71)

Speak of the North! A lonely moor

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Speak of the North! A lonely moor

by Charlotte Brontë · English

21 April 1816 - 31 March 1855 (~39)

The Harvest Moon

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The Harvest Moon

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · English

27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)

The Mother's Call

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The Mother's Call

by Allan Cunningham · English

7 December 1784 - 30 October 1842 (~58)

The Plough

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The Plough

by Richard Henry Horne · English

31 December 1803 - 13 March 1884 (~81)

The Prospect

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The Prospect

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · English

6 March 1806 - 29 June 1861 (~55)

The Sands of Dee

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The Sands of Dee

by Charles Kingsley · English

12 June 1819 - 23 January 1875 (~56)

The Summer

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The Summer

by Edward Hovell-Thurlow · English

10 June 1781 - 4 June 1829 (~48)

To the River Charles

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To the River Charles

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · English

27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)

William Tell

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William Tell

by William Cullen Bryant · English

3 November 1794 - 12 June 1878 (~84)

Written in March

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Written in March

by William Wordsworth · English

7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850 (~80)

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