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 George William Russell
William Butler Yeats
13 June 1865–28 January 1939 (~74)
82% affinity
Shared: irish literary revival, irish
bio 77% · poems 89%
Joseph Campbell
15 July 1879–6 June 1944 (~65)
81% affinity
Shared: irish literary revival, irish
bio 75% · poems 89%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
81% affinity
Shared: social
bio 75% · poems 88%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
79% affinity
Shared: spiritual, beauty
bio 71% · poems 89%
James Stephens
2 February 1882–26 December 1950 (~68)
79% affinity
Shared: irish literary revival, irish
bio 73% · poems 87%
John Boyle O'Reilly
28 June 1844–10 August 1890 (~46)
79% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 70% · poems 89%
Thomas Moore
28 May 1779–25 February 1852 (~73)
78% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 71% · poems 87%
James Clarence Mangan
1 May 1803–20 June 1849 (~46)
78% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 71% · poems 87%
Sir Lewis Morris
23 January 1833–12 November 1907 (~74)
78% affinity
bio 70% · poems 88%
Arthur Hugh Clough
1 January 1819–13 November 1861 (~42)
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 71% · poems 86%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
78% affinity
Shared: rural, beauty
bio 69% · poems 89%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
78% affinity
Shared: beauty, world
bio 70% · poems 87%