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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R. Williams Parry
Poet B
Rudyard Kipling
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Strongly related
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Rudyard Kipling was born Joseph Rudyard Kipling on December 30, 1865, in the bustling colonial port of Bombay, British India, a city that would forever pulse through his veins like the monsoon rains and the clamor of its streets. He died on January 18, 1936, in London, England, at the age of seventy, his body laid to rest in Poets’ Corner of Westminster Abbey after a life that spanned the height of the British Empire…
“The Gods above have not denied you the light that shows the true use and the true significance of that material prosperity.”
In time
R. Williams Parry
Rudyard Kipling
1865
1956
They overlapped for 53 years (1884–1936).
When R. Williams Parry was born, Rudyard Kipling was about 19.
R. Williams Parry was about 52 when Rudyard Kipling died.
On the map
About 7,490 km separate Talysarn, Gwynedd, Wales from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Shared ground: United Kingdom.
R. Williams Parry
Rudyard Kipling
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. Rudyard Kipling: bombay, westminster abbey, the jungle book, just so stories, kim, gunga din, the light that failed, caroline balestier.
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
Rudyard Kipling
1901
Publication of 'Kim'
Emotional landscapes
R. Williams Parry: Longing, Sorrow, Despair. Rudyard Kipling: Irony, Sorrow, Longing.