Poet Affinities
Every poet has a thematic centre of gravity averaged from their critiqued poems. Here we use that to find the poets whose work rhymes with a given writer — often in surprising ways.
Poets whose work rhymes most with Anne Brontë by life & context
Charlotte Brontë
21 April 1816–31 March 1855 (~39)
84% affinity
Shared: thornton, gondal, novel
Emily Brontë
30 July 1818–19 December 1848 (~30)
80% affinity
Shared: charlotte brontë, gondal, social
Anne Bradstreet
1612–16 September 1672 (~60)
73% affinity
Shared: life, spiritual
Charlotte Smith
4 May 1749–28 October 1806 (~57)
71% affinity
Shared: social, novels
Elizabeth Stoddard
6 May 1823–1 August 1902 (~79)
71% affinity
Shared: novel, novels
Anna Lætitia Barbauld
20 June 1743–9 March 1825 (~82)
71% affinity
Shared: social
George Eliot
22 November 1819–22 December 1880 (~61)
70% affinity
Shared: social, novel
Dorothy Greenwell
6 December 1821–29 March 1882 (~61)
69% affinity
Shared: social
Mary Coleridge
23 September 1861–25 August 1907 (~46)
69% affinity
Shared: social
Mary Webb
25 March 1881–8 October 1927 (~46)
68% affinity
Shared: novel, novels
Amelia Alderson Opie
12 November 1769–2 December 1853 (~84)
66% affinity
Shared: social, novel
Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan
22 March 1808–15 June 1877 (~69)
65% affinity
Shared: social