Thesaurus approach, examples

Martindale's RID, Regressive Imagery Dictionary

Martindale, The Clockwork Muse (1990), p. 139

Figure: Centuries of British Poetry

An index of stylistic change (based upon percentage of words added and dropped) and primordial content in each of twenty consecutive tenty-year periods (1550-1949).

Coleridge and the picturesque (Miall, 1999)

Texts:

  1. Whateley (1770)
  2. Heron (1792)
  3. Gilpin (1792)
  4. Williams (1798)
  5. Radcliffe (1795)
  6. Coleridge Hartz Note (1799)
  7. Coleridge Hartz Letter (1799)
  8. Coleridge Scottish Note (1803)