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“roman” + romantic across the centuries

Bar length = percentage of poems in that cohort whose critique surfaced any of these terms. Click an era to focus the poem list below (click again to show samples from all eras).

pre-1500 1 / 30 BCE 4 / 12 1500s 0 / 10 1550s 1 / 91 1600s 2 / 178 1650s 3 / 60 1700s 0 / 35 1750s 26 / 164 1800s 116 / 687 1850s 13 / 950 1900s 20 / 1128 1950s 1 / 15

Poems in 1850s · 13 with this theme Show all eras

A Sound Is in My Ear To-Day

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A Sound Is in My Ear To-Day

by Alexander Anderson · English

30 April 1845 - 11 July 1909 (~64)

Coruisk

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Coruisk

by Robert Williams Buchanan · English

18 August 1841 - 10 June 1901 (~60)

He Has Fallen from the Height of His Love

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He Has Fallen from the Height of His Love

by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt · English

17 August 1840 - 10 September 1922 (~82)

Horace to Leuconoë

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Horace to Leuconoë

by Edwin Arlington Robinson · English

22 December 1869 - 6 April 1935 (~66)

Keeping a Heart

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Keeping a Heart

by Arthur O'Shaughnessy · English

14 March 1844 - 30 January 1881 (~37)

Love's Suicide

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Love's Suicide

by E. Nesbit · English

15 August 1858 - 4 May 1924 (~66)

Mirage

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Mirage

by Christina Rossetti · English

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

Rima XXI

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Rima XXI

by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · Spanish

1836 - 1870 (~34)

September 1913

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September 1913

by William Butler Yeats · English

13 June 1865 - 28 January 1939 (~74)

Sorrowful Music

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Sorrowful Music

by Bayard Taylor · English

11 January 1825 - 19 December 1878 (~53)

The Roman Road

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The Roman Road

by Thomas Hardy · English

2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928 (~88)

The True Lover

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The True Lover

by A.E.Housman · English

26 March 1859 - 30 April 1936 (~77)

Touching "Never"

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Touching "Never"

by Christina Rossetti · English

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

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