Arthur Shearly Cripps was born on 10 June 1869, the son of Charles Alfred Cripps, later the first Baron Parmoor, and Theresa Potter Cripps. He belonged, by birth and education, to the privileged English world that supplied many of the administrators, clergy, soldiers, and writers of the British Empire. Yet the course of his life led him into a searching and often lonely quarrel with that world. He became an Anglican…
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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
Arthur Shearly Cripps
Poet B
Madison Julius Cawein
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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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Another related pair
Madison Julius Cawein was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on 23 March 1865, at the unsettled close of the Civil War, and died there on 8 December 1914, not yet fifty years old. During his lifetime he was among the best-known American poets of his generation, a writer praised by influential editors, admired in Britain as well as the United States, and affectionately called the “Keats of Kentucky.” After his death, howev…
In time
Arthur Shearly Cripps
Madison Julius Cawein
1865
1952
They overlapped for 46 years (1869–1914).
When Arthur Shearly Cripps was born, Madison Julius Cawein was about 4.
Arthur Shearly Cripps was about 45 when Madison Julius Cawein died.
On the map
About 6,385 km separate Warwickshire, England from Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Different countries, different weather — unless a poem carries one landscape into the other.
Arthur Shearly Cripps
Madison Julius Cawein
Themes they return to
Distinctive words drawn from each poet’s critiqued poems — what they keep writing about, not just what their biographies mention.
No overlapping top terms in the poem critiques — any kinship may sit in mood rather than vocabulary.
From the biographies
Arthur Shearly Cripps: southern rhodesia, st faith’s mission, the black christ, africa for africans, first chimurenga, cecil rhodes, oxford movement, trinity college oxford. Madison Julius Cawein: louisville, keats of kentucky, blooms of the berry, kentucky poems, edmund clarence stedman, gertrude foster mckelvey, myth and romance, intimations of the beautiful.
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.
Madison Julius Cawein
Emotional landscapes
Arthur Shearly Cripps: Spirituality, Longing, Sorrow. Madison Julius Cawein: Sorrow, Despair, Longing.