Thomas Osbert Mordaunt, born in 1730 and dead on 13 February 1809, occupies an unusual but revealing place in eighteenth-century British culture. He was a career cavalry officer who rose to the rank of lieutenant-general, a man connected by birth and service to the highest military and courtly circles, and the author of a short poem whose best-known stanza has outlived nearly everything else he wrote. “One crowded ho…
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Thomas Osbert Mordaunt
Poet B
Charles Wesley
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Charles Wesley was born on 18 December 1707 at Epworth, Lincolnshire, into a household that was at once crowded, precarious, intellectually ambitious, and intensely religious. He was the eighteenth child of Samuel Wesley, rector of Epworth, and Susanna Wesley, whose formidable discipline and devotional intelligence made her one of the great formative presences in the history of English Methodism. Nineteen children we…
“God buries his workmen, but carries on his work.”
In time
Thomas Osbert Mordaunt
Charles Wesley
1707
1809
They overlapped for 59 years (1730–1788).
When Thomas Osbert Mordaunt was born, Charles Wesley was about 23.
Thomas Osbert Mordaunt was about 58 when Charles Wesley died.
On the map
About 230 km separate London, England from Epworth, Lincolnshire, England. Both have ground in London.
Thomas Osbert Mordaunt
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
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Thomas Osbert Mordaunt: lieutenant-general, battle of warburg, the call, georgian britain, colonel charles mordaunt, princess augusta, richard howe, william howe. Charles Wesley: epworth, lincolnshire, john wesley, george whitefield, methodism, hymns and sacred poems, o for a thousand tongues to sing, fort frederica.
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 Osbert Mordaunt
Charles Wesley
Emotional landscapes
Thomas Osbert Mordaunt: Tenderness, Sorrow, Longing. Charles Wesley: Spirituality, Peace, Joy.