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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 / 177 1650s 3 / 60 1700s 0 / 35 1750s 26 / 164 1800s 116 / 687 1850s 13 / 948 1900s 19 / 1125 1950s 1 / 15

Poems in 1900s · 19 with this theme Show all eras

A Song of the Road

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A Song of the Road

by Nora Hopper Chesson · English

2 January 1871 - 14 April 1906 (~35)

Clearly my ruined garden as it stood

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Clearly my ruined garden as it stood

by Edna St. Vincent Millay · English

22 February 1892 - 19 October 1950 (~58)

Fulfilment

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Fulfilment

by Paul Laurence Dunbar · English

27 June 1872 - 9 February 1906 (~34)

Greater Love

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Greater Love

by Wilfred Owen · English

18 March 1893 - 4 November 1918 (~25)

I know my mind

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I know my mind

by Edna St. Vincent Millay · English

22 February 1892 - 19 October 1950 (~58)

Inland

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Inland

by Edna St. Vincent Millay · English

22 February 1892 - 19 October 1950 (~58)

Letters

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Letters

by John Van Alstyne Weaver · English

17 July 1893 - 14 June 1938 (~45)

Little Bo-Peep and Little Boy-Blue

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Little Bo-Peep and Little Boy-Blue

by A. A. Milne · English

18 January 1882 - 31 January 1956 (~74)

Not in a silver casket cool with pearls

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Not in a silver casket cool with pearls

by Edna St. Vincent Millay · English

22 February 1892 - 19 October 1950 (~58)

Romance

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Romance

by Walter J. Turner · English

13 October 1884 - 18 November 1946 (~62)

Send Her a Valentine

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Send Her a Valentine

by Edgar A. Guest · English

20 August 1881 - 5 August 1959 (~78)

Shall I be prisoner till my pulses stop

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Shall I be prisoner till my pulses stop

by Edna St. Vincent Millay · English

22 February 1892 - 19 October 1950 (~58)

Shuttle-Cock and Battle-Door

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Shuttle-Cock and Battle-Door

by Mina Loy · English

27 December 1882 - 25 September 1966 (~84)

The Aisne (1914-15)

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The Aisne (1914-15)

by Alan Seeger · English

22 June 1888 - 4 July 1916 (~28)

The Highwayman

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The Highwayman

by Alfred Noyes · English

16 September 1880 - 25 June 1958 (~78)

The Moth That God Made Blind

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The Moth That God Made Blind

by Hart Crane · English

21 July 1899 - 27 April 1932 (~33)

To Eros

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To Eros

by Wilfred Owen · English

18 March 1893 - 4 November 1918 (~25)

Who goes amid the green wood

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Who goes amid the green wood

by James Joyce · English

2 February 1882 - 13 January 1941 (~59)

Wild Asters

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Wild Asters

by Sara Teasdale · English

8 August 1884 - 29 January 1933 (~49)

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