Horace's influence can be observed in the work of his near contemporaries, Ovid and Propertius.

Like his near contemporaries Franz Kafka and Constantine Cavafy, Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) was a writer and a clerk, but he encapsulated many different literary personalities.

Unlike his near contemporaries Walton and Britten, Tippett was slow to mature.

Seneca's critical reception among near contemporaries in general was often severely criticized.

He is regarded alongside his near contemporaries Graeme Hick and Mark Ramprakash as a hugely talented player who failed to realise his full potential at international level.

Most Elizabethans would have seen the characters in Othello as near contemporaries, and the treatment of foreigners as a modern problem.

Like his near contemporaries, the polar explorers Scott and Shackleton, he possessed a romantic 19th-century temperament.

Despite the fact that the manuscript was not published until 1656, the year before his death, it was well received by his near contemporaries.

The life of Epaminondas is very poorly attested in the ancient sources, especially compared to some of his near contemporaries (e.g. Philip II of Macedon, Pelopidas).

Some of Stafford's near contemporaries, including J. D. Salinger and Ralph Ellison, have built sturdy reputations on even smaller bodies of work than hers.