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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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“religious” 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 6 / 176 1650s 0 / 57 1700s 2 / 34 1750s 10 / 161 1800s 16 / 683 1850s 40 / 938 1900s 17 / 1115 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1800s · 16 with this theme Show all eras

A Prayer

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A Prayer

by Anne Brontë · English

17 January 1820 - 28 May 1849 (~29)

Abou Ben Adhem

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Abou Ben Adhem

by Leigh Hunt · English

19 October 1784 - 28 August 1859 (~75)

Brahma

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Brahma

by Ralph Waldo Emerson · English

25 May 1803 - 27 April 1882 (~79)

Footsteps of Angels

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Footsteps of Angels

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · English

27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)

Hymn

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Hymn

by Edgar Allan Poe · English

19 January 1809 - 7 October 1849 (~40)

If This Be All

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If This Be All

by Anne Brontë · English

17 January 1820 - 28 May 1849 (~29)

Orion

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Orion

by Charles Tennyson Turner · English

4 July 1808 - 25 April 1879 (~71)

Pleasure and Pain

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Pleasure and Pain

by Richard Monckton Milnes · English

19 June 1809 - 11 August 1885 (~76)

Qui Laborat, Orat

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Qui Laborat, Orat

by Arthur Hugh Clough · English

1 January 1819 - 13 November 1861 (~42)

Sunrise

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Sunrise

by Charles Tennyson Turner · English

4 July 1808 - 25 April 1879 (~71)

Sursum Corda

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Sursum Corda

by Ralph Waldo Emerson · English

25 May 1803 - 27 April 1882 (~79)

The Children Band

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The Children Band

by Sir Aubrey de Vere · English

28 August 1788 - 5 July 1846 (~58)

The Landing of the Pilgrims

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The Landing of the Pilgrims

by Felicia Dorothea Hemans · English

25 September 1793 - 16 May 1835 (~42)

There Is No God

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There Is No God

by Arthur Hugh Clough · English

1 January 1819 - 13 November 1861 (~42)

To a Very Old Woman

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To a Very Old Woman

by William Makepeace Thackeray · English

18 July 1811 - 24 December 1863 (~52)

To Nature

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To Nature

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge · English

21 October 1772 - 25 July 1834 (~62)

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