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 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ernst Stadler
11 August 1883–30 October 1914 (~31)
79% affinity
Shared: french
bio 73% · poems 86%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
77% affinity
Shared: world, death
bio 72% · poems 84%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
77% affinity
Shared: world
bio 71% · poems 84%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
76% affinity
Shared: world, self
bio 68% · poems 84%
William Butler Yeats
13 June 1865–28 January 1939 (~74)
75% affinity
Shared: world, love
bio 69% · poems 83%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
75% affinity
Shared: world
bio 67% · poems 84%
Lord Byron
22 January 1788–19 April 1824 (~36)
75% affinity
Shared: social, world
bio 69% · poems 81%
T. S. Eliot
26 September 1888–4 January 1965 (~77)
75% affinity
Shared: social, world
bio 69% · poems 82%
Walter Savage Landor
30 January 1775–17 September 1864 (~89)
74% affinity
Shared: social, death
bio 67% · poems 83%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
74% affinity
Shared: world
bio 68% · poems 81%
Gerald Gould
9 April 1885–2 November 1936 (~51)
74% affinity
Shared: social, world
bio 66% · poems 83%
Thomas Hardy
2 June 1840–11 January 1928 (~88)
74% affinity
Shared: social, novel
bio 67% · poems 83%