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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

A. Mary F. Robinson A. Mary F. Robinson

Poet B

King James Bible King James Bible
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A random pair who overlapped in time and whose poems already rhyme in the catalogue — a way into poets you may not have met.

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Their work already rhymes in the catalogue. The rest of this page is the story around that rhyme.
Biography 46% Poems 80% Blended 61%
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A. Mary F. Robinson

A. Mary F. Robinson

27 February 1857 – 9 February 1944 (~87)
12 live poems · English

Agnes Mary Frances Robinson, who published most often as A. Mary F. Robinson and became successively known in France as Madame Darmesteter and Madame Duclaux, was born on 27 February 1857 in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, and died in Aurillac, France, on 9 February 1944. Her unusually long life carried her from the high Victorian age into the Second World War; her writing career connected English Romantic and aestheti…

“The chapel of the Minor Poet may be too small to admit the crowd; it may be thronged when three or four are gathered together. None the less, it has its use and place.”

Neighbourhood: Decadent Poets, LGBTQ+ Poets, Love Poets, Pre-Raphaelite Poets, Victorian Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Longing, Despair
King James Bible

King James Bible

1611 – present
7 live poems · English

The King James Bible, more accurately called the King James Version or Authorized Version, does not have a birth and death date in the ordinary biographical sense, because it is neither a person nor the work of a solitary author. Yet it has a remarkably vivid life story. “Born” in print in 1611, during the reign of James VI and I (born June 19, 1566; died March 27, 1625), it emerged from religious conflict, royal cal…

“We desire that the Scripture may speak like itself, as in the language of Canaan, that it may be understood even of the very vulgar.”

Neighbourhood: Devotional Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Renaissance Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Peace, Wonder

In time

A. Mary F. Robinson
King James Bible
1611 2026
They overlapped for 88 years (1857–1944). When A. Mary F. Robinson was born, King James Bible was about 246.

On the map

About 132 km separate Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England from Hampton Court, London, England. Shared ground: United Kingdom.

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

From the biographies

A. Mary F. Robinson: leamington spa, aurillac, madame darmesteter, madame duclaux, a handful of honeysuckle, the new arcadia, emily brontë, james darmesteter. King James Bible: king james version, authorized version, hampton court conference, william tyndale, john wycliffe, lancelot andrewes, miles smith, george abbot.

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 Road Leading Nowhere
A. Mary F. Robinson
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Ecclesiastes 1
King James Bible
The Road Leading Nowhere
A. Mary F. Robinson
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Psalm 23
King James Bible
Three Songs
A. Mary F. Robinson
71% life
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Psalm 1
King James Bible
Writing History
A. Mary F. Robinson
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Ecclesiastes 1
King James Bible
The Two Lions
A. Mary F. Robinson
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Ecclesiastes 1
King James Bible
Versailles
A. Mary F. Robinson
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Psalm 1
King James Bible

The world around them

While their lives overlapped

Notable events from the years they were both alive.

Emotional landscapes

A. Mary F. Robinson: Sorrow, Longing, Despair. King James Bible: Spirituality, Peace, Wonder.

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