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 Matthew Arnold by life & context
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
78% affinity
Shared: victorian age
Arthur Hugh Clough
1 January 1819–13 November 1861 (~42)
77% affinity
Shared: thomas arnold
Frederick Tennyson
5 June 1807–26 February 1898 (~91)
76% affinity
G. K. Chesterton
29 May 1874–14 June 1936 (~62)
75% affinity
Shared: religious
Francis Hastings Doyle
21 August 1810–8 June 1888 (~78)
75% affinity
Shared: social
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
75% affinity
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
74% affinity
Shared: social, religious
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
73% affinity
Shared: social
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
73% affinity
Shared: oxford
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
73% affinity
Shared: oxford
Alfred Austin
30 May 1835–2 June 1913 (~78)
73% affinity
Shared: social
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
72% affinity
Shared: culture