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…
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Alexander Brome
Poet B
Sir Charles Sedley
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Kindred spirits
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
Sir Charles Sedley, fifth baronet, was born in March 1639 and died on 20 August 1701. He belonged to that brilliant and troubling generation of Restoration writers whose lives seem inseparable from the political convulsions, sexual freedoms, theatrical revivals, and moral contradictions of later seventeenth-century England. Poet, playwright, translator, conversational wit, courtier, landowner, and member of Parliamen…
“As the king has made my daughter a countess, the least I can do, in common gratitude, is to assist in making his Majesty's daughter a queen.”
In time
Alexander Brome
Sir Charles Sedley
1620
1701
They overlapped for 28 years (1639–1666).
When Sir Charles Sedley was born, Alexander Brome was about 19.
Sir Charles Sedley was about 27 when Alexander Brome died.
On the map
About 224 km separate Evershot, Dorset, England from Allington Castle, Kent, England. Both have ground in London.
Alexander Brome
Sir Charles Sedley
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
restoration
songs
culture
Alexander Brome: royalist, london, dorset, the cunning lovers, english anacreon, civil war, satirical verse, wine. Sir Charles Sedley: restoration writers, bellamira, merry gang, lady katherine savage, catherine sedley, pompey the great, the mulberry-garden, antony and cleopatra.
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.
1649
Trial of Charles I
Alexander Brome
Sir Charles Sedley
Emotional landscapes
Alexander Brome: Joy, Irony, Tenderness. Sir Charles Sedley: Tenderness, Irony, Joy.