Joshua Henry Jones Jr. was born in 1876 in the sun-baked fields of Orangeburg, South Carolina, a place still echoing with the fragile hopes of Reconstruction. He died on December 14, 1955, in Boston, Massachusetts, at the age of seventy-nine, his life a remarkable arc that carried him from the segregated South to the bustling intellectual and political circles of New England. A poet, novelist, composer, journalist, a…
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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
Joshua Henry Jones
Poet B
Max Ehrmann
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 64%
Poems 82%
Blended 72%
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Another related pair
Max Ehrmann was born on 26 September 1872 in Terre Haute, Indiana, and died there on 9 September 1945, seventeen days before his seventy-third birthday. He is remembered almost everywhere as the author of “Desiderata,” the compact prose poem beginning, “Go placidly amid the noise and haste,” but that single work represents only the most widely circulated part of a long, earnest, and sometimes overlooked literary life…
“I would like, if I could, to leave to my country a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some noble moods.”
In time
Joshua Henry Jones
Max Ehrmann
1872
1955
They overlapped for 70 years (1876–1945).
When Joshua Henry Jones was born, Max Ehrmann was about 4.
Joshua Henry Jones was about 69 when Max Ehrmann died.
On the map
About 886 km separate Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA from Terre Haute, Indiana, USA. Shared ground: United States.
Joshua Henry Jones
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
Joshua Henry Jones: orangeburg, south carolina, boston, helen courtney, the heart of the world, dear old boston, james michael curley, poems of the four seas. Max Ehrmann: terre haute, desiderata, bertha pratt king, depaul university, harvard university, delta tau delta, a fearsome riddle, the wife of marobius.
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.
Joshua Henry Jones
Max Ehrmann
Emotional landscapes
Joshua Henry Jones: Wonder, Longing, Peace. Max Ehrmann: Tenderness, Spirituality, Peace.