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“poverty” 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 / 30 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 10 1550s 0 / 91 1600s 0 / 177 1650s 0 / 59 1700s 0 / 35 1750s 4 / 164 1800s 3 / 687 1850s 1 / 946 1900s 3 / 1124 1950s 1 / 15

Poems in 1800s · 3 with this theme Show all eras

Poverty
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Poverty

by Henry David Thoreau · English

Henry David Thoreau portrait

12 July 1817 - 6 May 1862 (~45)

The Beggar Maid
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The Beggar Maid

by Alfred Lord Tennyson · English

Alfred Lord Tennyson portrait

6 August 1809 - 6 October 1892 (~83)

The Complaints of the Poor
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The Complaints of the Poor

by Robert Southey · English

Robert Southey portrait

12 August 1774 - 21 March 1843 (~69)

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