Edward Hovell-Thurlow, second Baron Thurlow, was born on 10 June 1781 in the Temple, London, and died at Brighton on 4 June 1829, six days before his forty-eighth birthday. He lived during one of the most turbulent and brilliant eras in English literary history: the age of the French Revolution, the Napoleonic wars, the Regency, and the flowering of Romantic poetry. Yet he occupied an unusual position within that age…
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Poet A
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
Poet B
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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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.
Kindred spirits
Their work already rhymes in the catalogue. The rest of this page is the story around that rhyme.
Biography 78%
Poems 84%
Blended 81%
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Another related pair
Alfred Tennyson, later Alfred, Lord Tennyson, was born on 6 August 1809 at Somersby rectory in Lincolnshire, England, and died on 6 October 1892 at Lurgashall in Sussex. During his long life he became the defining poetic voice of the Victorian age: at once a public laureate who wrote for national occasions and a private, searching poet whose work returned obsessively to bereavement, desire, religious uncertainty, mem…
“Action and reaction are the law of the world, for which one sometimes hates the world, though such a law is, I believe, in the main wholesome for the common weal.”
In time
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
Alfred Lord Tennyson
1781
1892
They overlapped for 21 years (1809–1829).
When Alfred Lord Tennyson was born, Edward Hovell-Thurlow was about 28.
Alfred Lord Tennyson was about 20 when Edward Hovell-Thurlow died.
On the map
About 193 km separate Westminster, London, England from Somersby, Lincolnshire, England. Both have ground in England.
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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
Edward Hovell-Thurlow: temple, london, brighton, second baron thurlow, thomas thurlow, anne bere, edward thurlow, charterhouse school, magdalen college, oxford. Alfred Lord Tennyson: somersby, lincolnshire, victorian age, arthur henry hallam, in memoriam, the lady of shalott, the lotos-eaters, ulysses.
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.
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Emotional landscapes
Edward Hovell-Thurlow: Joy, Wonder, Tenderness. Alfred Lord Tennyson: Wonder, Longing, Sorrow.