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 Lionel Johnson
Ebenezer Jones
20 January 1820–14 September 1860 (~40)
81% affinity
Shared: london, desire
bio 81%
Samuel Johnson
18 September 1709–13 December 1784 (~75)
81% affinity
Shared: london
bio 81%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
80% affinity
Shared: london, w. b. yeats, rhymers' club
bio 80%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
80% affinity
Shared: london, rhymers' club
bio 80%
William Butler Yeats
13 June 1865–28 January 1939 (~74)
79% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 79%
Francis Thompson
18 December 1859–13 November 1907 (~48)
79% affinity
Shared: london, catholic
bio 79%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
78% affinity
Shared: desire
bio 78%
William Watson
2 August 1858–11 August 1935 (~77)
78% affinity
bio 78%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
78% affinity
Shared: london, poems
bio 78%
Francis William Bourdillon
22 March 1852–13 January 1921 (~69)
78% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 78%
Arthur Hugh Clough
1 January 1819–13 November 1861 (~42)
77% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 77%
Jeremiah Joseph Callanan
1795–19 September 1839 (~44)
77% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 77%