Elizabeth Thomas, who wrote under the name “Corinna,” was born in 1675 and died in 1731. She belongs to that large and fascinating company of early eighteenth-century women writers whose lives survive only in fragments: poems, letters, dedications, hostile anecdotes, printers’ advertisements, and the recollections of men whose literary fame later eclipsed theirs. Yet Thomas was far more than a minor satellite of Alex…
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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
Elizabeth Thomas
Poet B
Thomas Osbert Mordaunt
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.
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Another related pair
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…
In time
Elizabeth Thomas
Thomas Osbert Mordaunt
1675
1809
They overlapped for 2 years (1730–1731).
When Thomas Osbert Mordaunt was born, Elizabeth Thomas was about 55.
Thomas Osbert Mordaunt was about 1 when Elizabeth Thomas died.
On the map
About 188 km separate Skenfrith, Monmouthshire, Wales from London, England. Shared ground: United Kingdom.
Elizabeth Thomas
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
Elizabeth Thomas only
From the biographies
Elizabeth Thomas: skenfrith, monmouthshire, corinna, richard gwinnett, pylades, alexander pope, miscellany poems on several subjects, eighteenth-century women writers. Thomas Osbert Mordaunt: lieutenant-general, battle of warburg, the call, georgian britain, colonel charles mordaunt, princess augusta, richard howe, william howe.
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.
Elizabeth Thomas
Thomas Osbert Mordaunt
Emotional landscapes
Elizabeth Thomas: Despair, Sorrow, Anger. Thomas Osbert Mordaunt: Tenderness, Sorrow, Longing.