Aubrey Thomas de Vere was born on 10 January 1814 at Curragh Chase, the family estate near Adare in County Limerick, Ireland, and died there on 20 January 1902, ten days after his eighty-eighth birthday. He belonged to a world of inherited land, cultivated learning, Protestant Ascendancy privilege, and literary ambition, yet much of his life was spent interrogating the moral assumptions of that world. In the course o…
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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.
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Aubrey Thomas de Vere
Poet B
William Butler Yeats
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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.
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William Butler Yeats was born on 13 June 1865 at Sandymount, County Dublin, and died on 28 January 1939 at Menton, France. During the seventy-three years between those dates, he became not merely Ireland’s most internationally celebrated modern poet but one of the major writers in English. Poet, dramatist, essayist, editor, cultural organizer, senator, and tireless architect of literary institutions, Yeats made a car…
“The imaginative writer differs from the saint in that he identifies himself—to the neglect of his own soul, alas!—with the soul of the world.”
In time
Aubrey Thomas de Vere
William Butler Yeats
1814
1939
They overlapped for 38 years (1865–1902).
When William Butler Yeats was born, Aubrey Thomas de Vere was about 51.
William Butler Yeats was about 37 when Aubrey Thomas de Vere died.
On the map
About 193 km separate Curragh Chase, County Limerick, Ireland from Dublin, Ireland. Shared ground: Ireland.
Aubrey Thomas de Vere
William Butler Yeats
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
Aubrey Thomas de Vere only
From the biographies
irish
Aubrey Thomas de Vere: curragh chase, county limerick, protestant ascendancy, william wordsworth, john henry newman, the waldenses, the search after proserpine, great famine. William Butler Yeats: sandymount, county dublin, menton, maud gonne, the wanderings of oisin, the second coming, sailing to byzantium, abbey theatre.
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.
Aubrey Thomas de Vere
William Butler Yeats
Emotional landscapes
Aubrey Thomas de Vere: Spirituality, Peace, Sorrow. William Butler Yeats: Longing, Sorrow, Despair.