Katharine Tynan Hinkson, born Katharine Tynan on 23 January 1861 and dead on 2 April 1931, was one of the most industrious and visible Irish writers of her generation. Poet, novelist, reviewer, memoirist, editor, children’s writer, and biographer, she published with a speed and abundance that can make her career seem almost bewildering to a modern reader. Her name is most often associated with the first phase of the…
Compare Poets
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.
Poet A
Katharine Tynan Hinkson
Poet B
Susan Coolidge
Compare two related contemporaries
A random pair who overlapped in time and whose poems already rhyme in the catalogue — a way into poets you may not have met.
Strongly related
Their work already rhymes in the catalogue. The rest of this page is the story around that rhyme.
Biography 65%
Poems 82%
Blended 73%
Swap sides
Another related pair
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, who wrote under the enduringly cheerful name Susan Coolidge, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on 29 January 1835, and died in Newport, Rhode Island, on 9 April 1905. She occupies a central place in the history of American children’s literature, though her reputation has often rested too narrowly on a single title: What Katy Did (1872). That novel and its sequels made her one of the best-known writ…
In time
Katharine Tynan Hinkson
Susan Coolidge
1835
1931
They overlapped for 45 years (1861–1905).
When Katharine Tynan Hinkson was born, Susan Coolidge was about 26.
Katharine Tynan Hinkson was about 44 when Susan Coolidge died.
On the map
About 5,542 km separate Clondalkin, County Dublin, Ireland from Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Different countries, different weather — unless a poem carries one landscape into the other.
Katharine Tynan Hinkson
Themes they return to
Distinctive words drawn from each poet’s critiqued poems — what they keep writing about, not just what their biographies mention.
Shared
Katharine Tynan Hinkson only
From the biographies
fiction
domestic
women
Katharine Tynan Hinkson: county dublin, whitehall, catholic farming family, w. b. yeats, christina rossetti, irish literary revival, shamrocks and ballads, the handsome brandons. Susan Coolidge: cleveland, newport, what katy did, katy carr, victorian domestic fiction, civil war nurse, theodore dwight woolsey, eyebright.
Poems that secretly rhyme
The closest poem-to-poem matches in critique space — the sort of kinship a listener hears before the catalogue admits it.
The world around them
While their lives overlapped
Notable events from the years they were both alive.
1863
Battle of Gettysburg
1863
Gettysburg Address
Katharine Tynan Hinkson
1912
Return to Ireland
Susan Coolidge
1876
Travel to Europe
Emotional landscapes
Katharine Tynan Hinkson: Longing, Sorrow, Spirituality. Susan Coolidge: Spirituality, Wonder, Peace.