Theme Timeline

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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“innocence” 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 16 / 164 1800s 7 / 687 1850s 6 / 946 1900s 8 / 1124 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1850s · 6 with this theme Show all eras

Nature's Magic
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Nature's Magic

by William Canton · English

William Canton portrait

27 October 1845 - 2 May 1926 (~81)

Pensionnaires
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Pensionnaires

by Paul Verlaine · French

Paul Verlaine portrait

30 March 1844 - 8 January 1896 (~52)

Spring
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Spring

by Gerard Manley Hopkins · English

Gerard Manley Hopkins portrait

28 July 1844 - 8 June 1889 (~45)

The Oxen
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The Oxen

by Thomas Hardy · English

Thomas Hardy portrait

2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928 (~88)

The Sleeper in the Valley
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The Sleeper in the Valley

by Arthur Rimbaud · French

Arthur Rimbaud portrait

20 October 1854 - 10 November 1891 (~37)

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