Themes
Themes prominent among the manuscript contents are identified, using a standardized list
Displaying 26–38 themes out of 38 total
Theme | Description | Major Theme | Minor Theme |
---|---|---|---|
Music, song, opera | Discussions of musical performances, instruments, singing. |
1 | 31 |
Nature | Descriptions of non-human natural phenomena, seasons, landscapes. |
39 | 38 |
Passions, Sentiments | Discussions of forces such as ambition, despair, hope, pity, etc. |
35 | 35 |
Public affairs | Includes political events, the Court/monarchy, party politics (Whigs, Tories), battles, public events, the slave trade, etc. (see also Celebrities, Satire – political, religious). |
72 | 31 |
Satire - political | Ridicule of political factions and parties, individuals in government roles, and events in the political sphere. |
35 | 11 |
Satire - religious | Ridicule of religious denominations, individual religious leaders, and events in the religious sphere. |
7 | 14 |
Satire - social | Ridicule of social behaviours such as gossip, pretentiousness, vanity, following fashions, quarrelling |
39 | 28 |
Shakespeare | Poetry about Shakespeare and/or his works. |
5 | 20 |
Solitude, loneliness, retirement | Celebrations or lamentations of a state of isolation or retirement. |
12 | 30 |
Theatre, drama | Discussions of theatrical performances, actors in particular roles; prologues and epilogues of plays (see also Shakespeare). |
14 | 32 |
Travel | Accounts or discussions of voyages by land or sea, whether local or abroad. |
9 | 16 |
Visual arts | Discussions of painting, drawing, sculpture, engraving, and of particular works of these arts. |
1 | 36 |
Women | Poetry about the nature of women or a significant number of poems about individual women. |
36 | 25 |