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“freedom” across the centuries

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Bar length = percentage of poems in that cohort whose critique surfaced this theme. Click an era to focus the poem list below.

pre-1500 1 / 30 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 10 1550s 0 / 90 1600s 1 / 176 1650s 0 / 59 1700s 2 / 34 1750s 2 / 163 1800s 10 / 685 1850s 17 / 944 1900s 14 / 1120 1950s 2 / 15

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Freedom
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Freedom

by John Barbour · English

John Barbour portrait

c. 1316 - 13 March 1395 (~79)

The Indifferent
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The Indifferent

by John Donne · English

John Donne portrait

1572 - 31 March 1631 (~59)

Written at an Inn at Henley
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Written at an Inn at Henley

by William Shenstone · English

William Shenstone portrait

18 November 1714 - 11 February 1763 (~49)

Ode Written in the Year 1746
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Ode Written in the Year 1746

by WIlliam Collins · English

WIlliam Collins portrait

25 December 1721 - 12 June 1759 (~38)

Why, ye tenants of the lake
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Why, ye tenants of the lake

by Robert Burns · English

Robert Burns portrait

25 January 1759 - 21 July 1796 (~37)

A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea
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A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea

by Allan Cunningham · English

Allan Cunningham portrait

7 December 1784 - 30 October 1842 (~58)

Song of the Sea
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Song of the Sea

by Barry Cornwall · English

Barry Cornwall portrait

21 November 1787 - 5 October 1874 (~87)

Musketaquid
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Musketaquid

by Ralph Waldo Emerson · English

Ralph Waldo Emerson portrait

25 May 1803 - 27 April 1882 (~79)

Ode to Duty
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Ode to Duty

by William Wordsworth · English

William Wordsworth portrait

7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850 (~80)

Nuns fret not
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Nuns fret not

by William Wordsworth · English

William Wordsworth portrait

7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850 (~80)

Milton!
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Milton!

by William Wordsworth · English

William Wordsworth portrait

7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850 (~80)

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