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J.G. Holland

Poet B

Henry Scott Holland

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J.G. Holland

24 July 1819 – 12 October 1881 (~62)

7 live poems · English

Josiah Gilbert Holland, known to his immense nineteenth-century readership as J. G. Holland and, in his newspaper essays, as “Timothy Titcomb,” was born on 24 July 1819 in Belchertown, Massachusetts, and died on 12 October 1881 in New York City. During his lifetime he occupied an unusually broad place in American literary culture: he was a physician by training, a journalist, editor, moral essayist, novelist, biograp…

“The most important part of a man's education is that which he gives himself.”

Neighbourhood: American Poets, Devotional Poets, Hymn Writers, Victorian Poets

Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Longing, Sorrow

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Henry Scott Holland

27 January 1847 – 17 March 1918 (~71)

1 live poem · English

Henry Scott Holland was born on 27 January 1847 at Ledbury, Herefordshire, into a world of Anglican privilege, classical education, and public duty. He died on 17 March 1918 in Oxford, at the close of a life spent attempting to make Christianity answerable to the moral crises of modern society. He was not, in the ordinary sense, a poet: he did not build his reputation through volumes of verse, nor did he belong to th…

“Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just round the corner.”

Neighbourhood: Devotional Poets, Hymn Writers, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Victorian Poets

Emotional landscape: Peace, Spirituality, Tenderness

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In time

J.G. Holland

Henry Scott Holland

1819 1918

They overlapped for 35 years (1847–1881). When Henry Scott Holland was born, J.G. Holland was about 28. Henry Scott Holland was about 34 when J.G. Holland died.

J.G. Holland in history Henry Scott Holland in history Years they were given

On the map

About 5,189 km separate Belchertown, Massachusetts, USA from Ledbury, Herefordshire, England. Different countries, different weather — unless a poem carries one landscape into the other.

J.G. Holland

Henry Scott Holland

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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

life love

J.G. Holland only

social spiritual nature self leadership leaders civic virtue justice power integrity mountain

Henry Scott Holland only

death dead memory relationship grief room voice name

From the biographies

social

J.G. Holland: belchertown, massachusetts, timothy titcomb, bitter-sweet, kathrina: her life and mine, history of western massachusetts, springfield republican, samuel bowles. Henry Scott Holland: ledbury, herefordshire, oxford, reverend george henry holland, charlotte dorothy, death is nothing at all, creed and character, christian social union.

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.

To a Sleeping Singer

J.G. Holland

75% love, life

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All is Well

Henry Scott Holland

Alone!

J.G. Holland

72% life

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All is Well

Henry Scott Holland

False and True

J.G. Holland

70%

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All is Well

Henry Scott Holland

Gradatim

J.G. Holland

69% life

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All is Well

Henry Scott Holland

Eureka

J.G. Holland

67% love

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All is Well

Henry Scott Holland

On the Righi

J.G. Holland

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All is Well

Henry Scott Holland

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While their lives overlapped

Notable events from the years they were both alive.

1847 Publication of Agnes Grey

1848 Communist Manifesto Published

1848 Publication of 'All Things Bright and Beautiful'

1848 Publication of 'Once in Royal David's City'

1848 Publication of The Biglow Papers

1848 Publication of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

1850 Publication of 'In Memoriam A.H.H.'

1851 Publication of Moby-Dick

J.G. Holland

1835 Early Education and Self-Teaching of J.G. Holland

1858 Publication of 'Bitter-Sweet'

1858 Publication of 'Timothy Titcomb Letters'

1860 Move to New York City

1867 Publication of 'Kathrina: Her Life and Mine'

1870 Founding of 'Scribner's Monthly'

1873 Publication of 'Arthur Bonnicastle'

1875 Publication of 'The Story of Sevenoaks'

Henry Scott Holland

1866 Matriculation at Balliol College, Oxford

1872 Ordination as Deacon

1874 Ordination as Priest

1876 Appointment as Senior Student at Christ Church

1890 Publication of 'The Light of the World'

1897 Involvement with the Christian Social Union

1908 Publication of 'The Church and the Future'

1918 Death of Henry Scott Holland

Emotional landscapes

J.G. Holland: Spirituality, Longing, Sorrow. Henry Scott Holland: Peace, Spirituality, Tenderness.

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Emotional landscapes