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 T. S. Eliot by life & context
George Eliot
22 November 1819–22 December 1880 (~61)
80% affinity
Shared: social, religious, world
Ezra Pound
30 October 1885–1 November 1972 (~87)
77% affinity
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
76% affinity
Shared: social, desire
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
75% affinity
Shared: social, religious
Howard Phelps Putnam
1894–3 July 1948 (~54)
75% affinity
Shared: social
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
75% affinity
Shared: world
William Butler Yeats
13 June 1865–28 January 1939 (~74)
74% affinity
Shared: desire
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
74% affinity
Shared: harvard university
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
74% affinity
Ralph Waldo Emerson
25 May 1803–27 April 1882 (~79)
74% affinity
Shared: social, religious, world
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
73% affinity
Shared: london, world
Wallace Stevens
2 October 1879–2 August 1955 (~76)
72% affinity
Shared: harvard university, george santayana