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 WIlliam Collins
Edward James Mortimer Collins
29 June 1827–28 July 1876 (~49)
85% affinity
bio 85%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
79% affinity
Shared: imaginative, music
bio 79%
Francis William Bourdillon
22 March 1852–13 January 1921 (~69)
79% affinity
bio 79%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
78% affinity
bio 78%
Arthur Hugh Clough
1 January 1819–13 November 1861 (~42)
77% affinity
bio 77%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
77% affinity
bio 77%
Trumbull Stickney
20 June 1874–11 October 1904 (~30)
76% affinity
bio 76%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
75% affinity
bio 75%
James Thomson
c. 11 September 1700–27 August 1748 (~48)
75% affinity
Shared: eighteenth
bio 75%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
75% affinity
Shared: music
bio 75%
John Clare
13 July 1793–20 May 1864 (~71)
75% affinity
bio 75%
George Darley
December 1795–23 November 1846 (~51)
75% affinity
Shared: imaginative
bio 75%