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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 1900s · 8 with this theme Show all eras

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Arms and the Boy

by Wilfred Owen · English

18 March 1893 - 4 November 1918 (~25)

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Bid Adieu

by James Joyce · English

2 February 1882 - 13 January 1941 (~59)

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By the Weir

by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson · English

2 June 1878 - 26 May 1962 (~84)

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Fern Hill

by Dylan Thomas · English

27 October 1914 - 9 November 1953 (~39)

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I Sat Among the Green Leaves

by Marjorie L. C. Pickthall · English

14 September 1883 - 22 April 1922 (~39)

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Puppy and I

by A. A. Milne · English

18 January 1882 - 31 January 1956 (~74)

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The neophyte, baptized in smiles

by Dylan Thomas · English

27 October 1914 - 9 November 1953 (~39)

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Vespers

by A. A. Milne · English

18 January 1882 - 31 January 1956 (~74)

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“innocence” across the centuries

Poems in 1900s · 8 with this theme Show all eras

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