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Name Description Titles
Poetry Epic

Lengthy composition, elegy, epistle, or canto in verse pertaining to a heroic journey, event, or individual. Works in this category are often derived from the genre designation on the title page.

10
Poetry Lyric

Elegy, ballad, or elegiac sonnet in verse.

47
Political Writing

Appeal, letter, defence, essay, address, summary, supplement, or reflection relating to society, culture, government. 

843
Religion/Biblical

Titles about religious or spiritual belief, or biblical history.

1687
Science/Natural History/Medicine

Titles addressing medicine, biology, chemistry, physics, botany, earth sciences, astronomy, etc.

285
Travel/Tourism/Topography

Guidebooks, descriptions, voyages, and tours of any particular location. 

515
Unknown

The genre of titles in this category are either not known or miscellaneous. 

140
Works

A collection of any combination of prose, poetry, accounts, memoirs, or posthumous works derived from the same author.

115