William Corkine, born about 1580 and apparently dead by about 1620, belongs to that compelling class of Renaissance artists whose surviving work is far more substantial than the surviving account of their lives. No secure baptismal record has been identified for him, no portrait can confidently be attached to his name, and the documents that might reveal his parents, teachers, marriage, household, or final illness ha…
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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.
Poet A
William Corkine
Poet B
Alexander Brome
Compare two related contemporaries
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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Another related pair
Alexander Brome, born in 1620 and dead on 30 June 1666, belongs to that lively but unevenly remembered company of seventeenth-century English writers whose poems were made for circulation, sociability, controversy, and song. He was a lawyer by profession, a Royalist by conviction, an editor and occasional dramatist by literary activity, and, above all, a writer of satirical and convivial verse. His name is not common…
In time
William Corkine
Alexander Brome
1580
1666
They overlapped for 1 year (1620–1620).
When Alexander Brome was born, William Corkine was about 40.
Alexander Brome was about 0 when William Corkine died.
On the map
About 188 km separate London, England from Evershot, Dorset, England. Both have ground in London.
William Corkine
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
songs
William Corkine: elizabethan period, jacobean court, ayres, the second booke of ayres, the third and last booke of ayres, lutenist, composer, bass viol. Alexander Brome: royalist, london, dorset, the cunning lovers, english anacreon, civil war, satirical verse, wine.
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.
William Corkine
Alexander Brome
Emotional landscapes
William Corkine: Longing, Tenderness, Fear. Alexander Brome: Joy, Irony, Tenderness.