Thomas Randolph was born on 15 June 1605 at Newnham, in the parish of Newnham-cum-Badby near Daventry, Northamptonshire, and was buried on 17 March 1635. His life lasted not quite thirty years, yet his achievement was unusually various: he was a lyric poet, satirist, writer of university entertainments, comic dramatist, pastoral dramatist, and one of the most gifted younger members of the literary circle gathered aro…
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Thomas Randolph
Poet B
Alexander Brome
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Alexander Brome, born in 1620 and dead on 30 June 1666, belongs to that lively but unevenly remembered company of seventeenth-century English writers whose poems were made for circulation, sociability, controversy, and song. He was a lawyer by profession, a Royalist by conviction, an editor and occasional dramatist by literary activity, and, above all, a writer of satirical and convivial verse. His name is not common…
In time
Thomas Randolph
Alexander Brome
1605
1666
They overlapped for 16 years (1620–1635).
When Alexander Brome was born, Thomas Randolph was about 15.
Alexander Brome was about 15 when Thomas Randolph died.
On the map
About 183 km separate Newnham-cum-Badby, Northamptonshire, England from Evershot, Dorset, England. Both have ground in England.
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Themes they return to
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No overlapping top terms in the poem critiques — any kinship may sit in mood rather than vocabulary.
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From the biographies
culture
Thomas Randolph: daventry, ben jonson, trinity college, the jealous lovers, the muses' looking-glass, aristippus, caroline age, lyric poet. Alexander Brome: royalist, london, dorset, the cunning lovers, english anacreon, civil war, satirical verse, wine.
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.
Thomas Randolph
Alexander Brome
Emotional landscapes
Thomas Randolph: Irony, Joy, Wonder. Alexander Brome: Joy, Irony, Tenderness.