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 Leigh Hunt
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
82% affinity
Shared: london
bio 76% · poems 90%
Thomas Hood
23 May 1799–3 May 1845 (~46)
80% affinity
Shared: london
bio 72% · poems 89%
John Oldham
9 August 1653–9 December 1683 (~30)
79% affinity
Shared: life
bio 71% · poems 89%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
79% affinity
bio 76% · poems 83%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
79% affinity
Shared: london
bio 70% · poems 90%
Robert Herrick
24 August 1591–15 October 1674 (~83)
79% affinity
Shared: london, social
bio 69% · poems 91%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
79% affinity
Shared: love
bio 72% · poems 87%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 69% · poems 90%
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
78% affinity
Shared: london
bio 70% · poems 89%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 70% · poems 88%
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
29 August 1809–7 October 1894 (~85)
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 69% · poems 89%
Walter Savage Landor
30 January 1775–17 September 1864 (~89)
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 70% · poems 88%