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 A.E.Housman
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
85% affinity
Shared: death
bio 79% · poems 92%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
84% affinity
Shared: oxford
bio 79% · poems 91%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
83% affinity
Shared: death
bio 77% · poems 91%
Robert Herrick
24 August 1591–15 October 1674 (~83)
83% affinity
bio 77% · poems 89%
Laurence Binyon
10 August 1869–10 March 1943 (~74)
83% affinity
Shared: scholarship
bio 77% · poems 90%
Thomas Hood
23 May 1799–3 May 1845 (~46)
82% affinity
Shared: death
bio 75% · poems 92%
Thomas Hardy
2 June 1840–11 January 1928 (~88)
82% affinity
Shared: death, world
bio 73% · poems 94%
Charles Sorley
19 May 1895–13 October 1915 (~20)
82% affinity
Shared: death
bio 76% · poems 90%
Rupert Brooke
3 August 1887–23 April 1915 (~28)
82% affinity
bio 76% · poems 89%
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
82% affinity
bio 73% · poems 93%
Hartley Coleridge
19 September 1796–6 January 1849 (~53)
81% affinity
Shared: oxford
bio 75% · poems 89%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
81% affinity
Shared: world, life, beauty
bio 74% · poems 90%