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 Charles Lamb
Mary Lamb
3 December 1764–20 May 1847 (~83)
86% affinity
Shared: east india company, london
bio 83% · poems 90%
T. S. Eliot
26 September 1888–4 January 1965 (~77)
80% affinity
Shared: london
bio 75% · poems 86%
Philip Arthur Larkin
9 August 1922–2 December 1985 (~63)
80% affinity
bio 73% · poems 88%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
80% affinity
Shared: samuel taylor coleridge, life
bio 73% · poems 88%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
79% affinity
Shared: life
bio 72% · poems 86%
Hartley Coleridge
19 September 1796–6 January 1849 (~53)
78% affinity
Shared: samuel taylor coleridge, life
bio 72% · poems 87%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
78% affinity
Shared: life
bio 72% · poems 86%
Walter Savage Landor
30 January 1775–17 September 1864 (~89)
78% affinity
Shared: samuel taylor coleridge
bio 73% · poems 85%
Charles Tennyson Turner
4 July 1808–25 April 1879 (~71)
78% affinity
Shared: life
bio 73% · poems 84%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
78% affinity
bio 70% · poems 87%
Matthew Arnold
24 December 1822–15 April 1888 (~66)
77% affinity
Shared: life
bio 71% · poems 85%
Thomas Hood
23 May 1799–3 May 1845 (~46)
77% affinity
Shared: william hazlitt, london
bio 70% · poems 86%