Aubrey Thomas de Vere was born on 10 January 1814 at Curragh Chase, the family estate near Adare in County Limerick, Ireland, and died there on 20 January 1902, ten days after his eighty-eighth birthday. He belonged to a world of inherited land, cultivated learning, Protestant Ascendancy privilege, and literary ambition, yet much of his life was spent interrogating the moral assumptions of that world. In the course o…
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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
Aubrey Thomas de Vere
Poet B
William Allingham
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A random pair who overlapped in time and whose poems already rhyme in the catalogue — a way into poets you may not have met.
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Their work already rhymes in the catalogue. The rest of this page is the story around that rhyme.
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William Allingham was born on 19 March 1824 in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, a small market town at the mouth of the River Erne, and died on 18 November 1889 at Hampstead in London. His literary reputation rests above all on a handful of extraordinarily durable lyrics: poems of rivers, birds, childhood, fairy lore, village life, and remembered Irish landscapes. Yet his career was broader and more complicated than the…
“Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men’s work?”
In time
Aubrey Thomas de Vere
William Allingham
1814
1902
They overlapped for 66 years (1824–1889).
When William Allingham was born, Aubrey Thomas de Vere was about 10.
Aubrey Thomas de Vere was about 75 when William Allingham died.
On the map
About 216 km separate Curragh Chase, County Limerick, Ireland from Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Ireland. Shared ground: Ireland.
Aubrey Thomas de Vere
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
great famine
irish
social
Aubrey Thomas de Vere: curragh chase, county limerick, protestant ascendancy, william wordsworth, john henry newman, the waldenses, the search after proserpine, great famine. William Allingham: ballyshannon, county donegal, the faeries, laurence bloomfield in ireland, the winding banks of erne, victorian britain, pre-raphaelite circle, dante gabriel rossetti.
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.
Aubrey Thomas de Vere
William Allingham
Emotional landscapes
Aubrey Thomas de Vere: Spirituality, Peace, Sorrow. William Allingham: Wonder, Sorrow, Fear.