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 Oliver Goldsmith
George Gascoigne
c. 1539–7 October 1577 (~38)
76% affinity
Shared: social
bio 76%
Charles Whitehead
4 October 1804–5 July 1862 (~58)
75% affinity
Shared: social, london
bio 75%
Edward James Mortimer Collins
29 June 1827–28 July 1876 (~49)
75% affinity
Shared: social
bio 75%
Samuel Rogers
30 July 1763–18 December 1855 (~92)
74% affinity
Shared: social
bio 74%
Richard Le Gallienne
20 January 1866–15 September 1947 (~81)
74% affinity
Shared: london
bio 74%
Thomas Love Peacock
18 October 1785–23 January 1866 (~81)
74% affinity
Shared: social
bio 74%
William Oldys
14 July 1696–15 April 1761 (~65)
74% affinity
bio 74%
Charles Lamb
10 February 1775–27 December 1834 (~59)
74% affinity
Shared: london
bio 74%
Gerald Gould
9 April 1885–2 November 1936 (~51)
74% affinity
Shared: social
bio 74%
Francis Hastings Doyle
21 August 1810–8 June 1888 (~78)
74% affinity
Shared: social
bio 74%
T. S. Eliot
26 September 1888–4 January 1965 (~77)
73% affinity
Shared: social, london
bio 73%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
73% affinity
bio 73%