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“poverty” 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).

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Poems in 1950s · 1 with this theme Show all eras

The Wealth of Nothing
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The Wealth of Nothing

by Elizabeth Devereux · English

Elizabeth Devereux portrait

12 March 1934 - 29 July 2023 (~89)

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