Robert Williams Parry, known in literature as R. Williams Parry, was born on 6 March 1884 at Talysarn in the Nantlle Valley of Caernarfonshire, north-west Wales, and died on 4 January 1956. He became one of the most admired Welsh-language poets of the twentieth century, though he was never a prolific author in the ordinary commercial sense. His reputation rests instead upon a relatively small body of exceptionally fi…
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Poet A
R. Williams Parry
Poet B
William Morris
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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.
Strongly related
Their work already rhymes in the catalogue. The rest of this page is the story around that rhyme.
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The life of William Morris presents one of the most remarkable and multifaceted careers in Victorian literature and culture. Born on March 24, 1834, in Walthamstow, Essex, and dying on October 3, 1896, in Hammersmith, London, Morris packed into his sixty-two years an astonishing array of accomplishments as poet, designer, craftsman, printer, translator, socialist activist, and visionary. He remains a figure who defie…
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In time
R. Williams Parry
William Morris
1834
1956
They overlapped for 13 years (1884–1896).
When R. Williams Parry was born, William Morris was about 50.
R. Williams Parry was about 12 when William Morris died.
On the map
About 339 km separate Talysarn, Gwynedd, Wales from Lambeth, London, England. Shared ground: United Kingdom.
R. Williams Parry
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
R. Williams Parry: talysarn, nantlle valley, yr haf a cherddi eraill, the summer and other poems, y llwynog, the fox, cynghanedd, welsh-language poetry. William Morris: walthamstow, hammersmith, edward burne-jones, the defence of guenevere, the haystack in the floods, the life and death of jason, the earthly paradise, sigurd the volsung.
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.
R. Williams Parry
William Morris
Emotional landscapes
R. Williams Parry: Longing, Sorrow, Despair. William Morris: Longing, Spirituality, Sorrow.