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Word: blakely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Patricia Blake, Gerald Clarke, Jay Cocks, John Elson, Thomas Griffith, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, John Leo, Jane O' Reilly, Kenneth M. Pierce, Richard Schickel, Mimi Sheraton, John Skow

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Masthead | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Masthead | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Masthead February 1, 1988 | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

...Charles Wychwood. One afternoon he comes across an old painting showing the marvellous boy as a middle-aged man. Curious, he begins to pore over some obscure manuscripts. They suggest that Chatterton faked his early death, then continued to write more verse under more assumed names, among them William Blake and Thomas Gray. "The greatest plagiarist in history?" inquires a colleague. "No!" Wychwood argues. "He was the greatest poet in history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Poet As a Young Corpse CHATTERTON | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Masthead January 18, 1988 Vol. 131 No. 3 | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

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Normalized population density for word "blakely" throughout decades:

1880s : 0.8446
1890s : 10.9777
1900s : 6.8863
1910s : 1.8764
1920s : 0.2785
1930s : 0.9497
1940s : 0.4060
1950s : 0.5917
1960s : 0.7045
1970s : 1.1440
1980s : 0.7400
1990s : 0.3784
2000s : 0.6503

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