Grace Hazard Conkling, born Grace Walcott Hazard in New York City on 7 February 1878, belonged to a generation of American women whose intellectual ambitions were increasingly supported by women’s colleges, international study, and new professional opportunities, even as marriage and motherhood still imposed demanding social expectations. She became a poet, teacher, musician, critic of children’s reading, and a forma…
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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
Grace Hazard Conkling
Poet B
Edna Wahlert McCourt
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
Edna Wahlert McCourt, born Edna Wahlert on 19 July 1887 and dead on 4 January 1963, belonged to a generation of American women writers whose literary lives were often sustained through friendship, little magazines, local institutions, family networks, and persistent private labor rather than through the highly visible routes to fame available to a few celebrated contemporaries. She is remembered principally as a poet…
“But I assure you he clung to the big issues like a cactus to the sand.”
In time
Grace Hazard Conkling
Edna Wahlert McCourt
1878
1963
They overlapped for 72 years (1887–1958).
When Edna Wahlert McCourt was born, Grace Hazard Conkling was about 9.
Edna Wahlert McCourt was about 71 when Grace Hazard Conkling died.
On the map
About 2,619 km separate New York City, New York, USA from Denver, Colorado, USA. Shared ground: United States.
Grace Hazard Conkling
Edna Wahlert McCourt
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
women
Grace Hazard Conkling: new york city, smith college, hilda conkling, symphony of a mexican garden, wilderness songs, roscoe platt conkling, tampico, charles-marie widor. Edna Wahlert McCourt: denver, colorado, st. louis, potter's wheel, sara teasdale, her america, the new poetry, poetry magazine.
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.
Grace Hazard Conkling
1900
Study in Europe
Edna Wahlert McCourt
Emotional landscapes
Grace Hazard Conkling: Sensuality, Wonder, Longing. Edna Wahlert McCourt: Wonder, Longing, Spirituality.