Grace Fallow Norton, born on 29 October 1876 in Northfield, Minnesota, and deceased in 1926, belongs to that large and consequential company of American poets whose work was respected in its own moment yet gradually slipped from broad public view. Her surviving reputation rests chiefly on a small body of lyric poetry, especially the 1912 collection Little Gray Songs from St. Joseph’s, a book whose title alone suggest…
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Grace Fallow Norton
Poet B
William H. A. Moore
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William H. A. Moore, born about 1885 and deceased in 1960, belongs to that important but still insufficiently recovered generation of African American poets whose careers connected the literary culture of the late nineteenth century with the flowering of the Harlem Renaissance and its related movements in Chicago, Washington, and other urban centers. His surviving reputation rests on a small body of lyric poetry, sca…
In time
Grace Fallow Norton
William H. A. Moore
1876
1960
They overlapped for 42 years (1885–1926).
When William H. A. Moore was born, Grace Fallow Norton was about 9.
William H. A. Moore was about 41 when Grace Fallow Norton died.
On the map
About 1,618 km separate Northfield, Minnesota, USA from New York City, New York, USA. Both have ground in New York.
Grace Fallow Norton
William H. A. Moore
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
lyric poetry
culture
songs
Grace Fallow Norton: northfield, minnesota, little gray songs from st. joseph's, smith college, christina rossetti, elizabeth barrett browning, emily dickinson, brontë sisters. William H. A. Moore: new york city, dusk songs, the crisis, james weldon johnson, harlem renaissance, city college of new york, columbia university, 1919 race riot.
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.
Grace Fallow Norton
William H. A. Moore
Emotional landscapes
Grace Fallow Norton: Longing, Sorrow, Tenderness. William H. A. Moore: Longing, Spirituality, Sorrow.