Find John Clare’s POEMS CHIEFLY FROM MANUSCRIPT in our library. Edmund Blunden, who edited the volume, writes: For the present volume over two thousand poems by Clare have been considered and compared; of which over two-thirds have not been published.…
Category: Content Word Vector
The Quran: English Translations
A number of different translations of the Quran are now available in our library. Compare the top ten most frequently used words (the content word vector) in these three translations: Translated out of Arabick into French. BY THE Sieur du…
Achilles Tatius: The loves of Clitophon and Leucippe, Translations 1638 & 1855
Two translations of Achilles Tatius’s The loves of Clitophon and Leucippe are now available in our library. The two translators write very different introductions (see below). The top ten most frequently used words in each translation suggest that the two…
See, old; Love, life; Day, long; Soul, earth
The most frequently used words and their frequencies in Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass: 0.348 see0.224 old0.222 love0.216 life0.214 day0.204 long0.200 soul0.198 earth0.196 man0.182 night0.160 men0.155 sea0.153 death0.141 know0.139 time0.138 come0.131 great0.123 world0.114 good0.110 hear To explore the content word…
War, Folk, Lord or Men, Hall, Battle?
Beowulf is one of the most important works of Old English literature. Maria Dahvana Headley, translator of Beowulf, tells us that it is both prudent and enjoyable to read more than one translation of the poem, for when it comes…
Old man see day; heart said come night
We ordered all the words in The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by their frequency of occurrence (the content word vector). The first eight words are: 0.207 old0.174 man0.171 see0.168 day0.165 heart0.164 said0.160 come0.157 night Find the text…