Orrick Glenday Johns occupies a curious and fascinating position in American literary history. He was neither fully absorbed into the canon of the great modernists nor forgotten entirely by literary historians. Instead, he stands at the threshold between the nineteenth-century poetic tradition and the restless experimentation of the early twentieth century. His life and work reflect a moment of transition in American…
Compare Poets
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
Orrick Johns
Poet B
A. Mary F. Robinson
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.
Biography 57%
Poems 83%
Blended 69%
Swap sides
Another related pair
Agnes Mary Frances Robinson, who published most often as A. Mary F. Robinson and became successively known in France as Madame Darmesteter and Madame Duclaux, was born on 27 February 1857 in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, and died in Aurillac, France, on 9 February 1944. Her unusually long life carried her from the high Victorian age into the Second World War; her writing career connected English Romantic and aestheti…
“Each of us also has some private niche, some inconsiderable intimate shrine, for the poet no one praises, who is all the more our own.”
In time
Orrick Johns
A. Mary F. Robinson
1857
1946
They overlapped for 58 years (1887–1944).
When Orrick Johns was born, A. Mary F. Robinson was about 30.
Orrick Johns was about 57 when A. Mary F. Robinson died.
On the map
About 6,095 km separate Sturgis, Michigan, USA from Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England. Different countries, different weather — unless a poem carries one landscape into the other.
A. Mary F. Robinson
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
Orrick Johns: sturgis, michigan, asphalt and other poems, university of michigan, romantic tradition, lyric sensitivity, modern urban life, philosophical reflection, nineteenth-century tradition. A. Mary F. Robinson: leamington spa, aurillac, madame darmesteter, madame duclaux, a handful of honeysuckle, the new arcadia, emily brontë, james darmesteter.
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.
Orrick Johns
A. Mary F. Robinson
1885
Move to Paris
Emotional landscapes
Orrick Johns: Sorrow, Despair, Irony. A. Mary F. Robinson: Sorrow, Longing, Despair.