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Originally Posted by Andrew Mandelbaum
The French poets stuff seems the least conclusive, at least from what info we have here. The mind makes the same connections along similar trails. The simplicity in some of the works makes coincidence believable.
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DesRuisseaux had cut [Renwick's poem] down from 13 lines to nine, and added his own closer.
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The things Renwick's poem mentions hardly seem inevitable enough to make it likely that another poet, coincidentally as a result of nothing other than thinking along similar lines, would choose 7 of her 11 and none that that her poem doesn't mention. Lightman seems to have been careful to find strong evidence.