Howard Phelps Putnam was born in 1894 in Allston, Massachusetts, then a distinctly suburban and semi-rural part of Boston, and died on July 3, 1948, in Jamaica Plain. He belonged to the generation of American writers formed between the confident cultural inheritance of the nineteenth century and the disillusioning modernity of the First World War. His reputation never became as large as those of several Yale contempo…
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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
Howard Phelps Putnam
Poet B
Eunice Tietjens
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 65%
Poems 77%
Blended 70%
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Another related pair
Eunice Tietjens was born in Chicago, Illinois, on 29 July 1884, into a city whose energy, contradictions, and cultural ambitions would shape the rest of her life. She died in the same city on 6 September 1944, after a career that had carried her across the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. During those sixty years, she became known not only as a poet but also as a journalist, traveler, lecturer, edito…
“Poetry is still my first and last love.”
In time
Howard Phelps Putnam
Eunice Tietjens
1884
1948
They overlapped for 51 years (1894–1944).
When Howard Phelps Putnam was born, Eunice Tietjens was about 10.
Howard Phelps Putnam was about 50 when Eunice Tietjens died.
On the map
About 1,365 km separate Boston, Massachusetts, USA from Chicago, Illinois, USA. Shared ground: United States.
Howard Phelps Putnam
Eunice Tietjens
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
Howard Phelps Putnam: allston, massachusetts, jamaica plain, trinc, the five seasons, the earthly comedy, harvard, massachusetts, skull and bones, stephen vincent benét. Eunice Tietjens: chicago, the candle, profiles from china, the singing wood, the crossroads, harriet monroe, poetry magazine, imagism.
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.
1895
The X-Ray Discovery
Howard Phelps Putnam
Eunice Tietjens
Emotional landscapes
Howard Phelps Putnam: Irony, Longing, Fear. Eunice Tietjens: Sorrow, Irony, Despair.