Pick two poets who seem to have nothing to do with each other — a Gothic American and a pastoral Englishman, say — and see where the catalogue actually joins them: overlapping years, shared ground, distinctive themes, and the poems that secretly rhyme.
Carl Sandburg
John Van Alstyne Weaver
A random pair who overlapped in time and whose poems already rhyme in the catalogue — a way into poets you may not have met.
Carl Sandburg, born 6 January 1878 in Galesburg, Illinois, and dead 22 July 1967 in Flat Rock, North Carolina, became one of the most recognizable American writers of the twentieth century: a poet of factories and prairies, a journalist of civic life, a collector and performer of folk songs, a novelist and children’s writer, and the immensely popular biographer of Abraham Lincoln. Few writers worked so deliberately t…
“A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.”
John Van Alstyne Weaver emerged from the vibrant literary ferment of early twentieth-century America as a poet who dared to capture the raw, unpolished heartbeat of everyday life. Born into a world of privilege yet drawn irresistibly to the voices of plumbers, shop girls, taxi drivers, and soldiers, he transformed the slang and cadence of the American street into poetry that pulsed with authenticity and charm. His wo…
About 1,048 km separate Galesburg, Illinois, USA from Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. Both have ground in North Carolina.
Distinctive words drawn from each poet’s critiqued poems — what they keep writing about, not just what their biographies mention.
Carl Sandburg: galesburg, flat rock, abraham lincoln, chicago, lillian steichen, chicago poems, cornhuskers, smoke and steel. John Van Alstyne Weaver: charlotte, north carolina, chicago, hamilton college, harvard university, h. l. mencken, in american: poems, finders: more poems in american, to youth.
The closest poem-to-poem matches in critique space — the sort of kinship a listener hears before the catalogue admits it.
Notable events from the years they were both alive.
Carl Sandburg: Longing, Sorrow, Wonder. John Van Alstyne Weaver: Longing, Sensuality, Sorrow.
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