Themes

Discussions of musical performances, instruments, singing.

Descriptions of non-human natural phenomena, seasons, landscapes. 

Discussions of forces such as ambition, despair, hope, pity, etc.

Includes political events, the Court/monarchy, party politics (Whigs, Tories), battles, public events, the slave trade, etc. (see also Celebrities, Satire – political, religious).

Ridicule of political factions and parties, individuals in government roles, and events in the political sphere.

Ridicule of religious denominations, individual religious leaders, and events in the religious sphere.

Ridicule of social behaviours such as gossip, pretentiousness, vanity, following fashions, quarrelling

Poetry about Shakespeare and/or his works.

Celebrations or lamentations of a state of isolation or retirement.

Discussions of theatrical performances, actors in particular roles; prologues and epilogues of plays (see also Shakespeare).

Accounts or discussions of voyages by land or sea, whether local or abroad.

Discussions of painting, drawing, sculpture, engraving, and of particular works of these arts.

Poetry about the nature of women or a significant number of poems about individual women.