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 Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Publius Ovidius Naso
20 March 43 BC–c. 17 (~60)
81% affinity
Shared: virgil, roman, rome
bio 77% · poems 85%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
80% affinity
Shared: life, knowledge
bio 75% · poems 86%
Gaius Valerius Catullus
c. 84 BC–c. 54 BC (~30)
79% affinity
Shared: roman, social
bio 77% · poems 82%
Robert Herrick
24 August 1591–15 October 1674 (~83)
78% affinity
Shared: carpe diem, social
bio 73% · poems 85%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
77% affinity
Shared: life
bio 73% · poems 83%
Alexander Pope
21 May 1688–30 May 1744 (~56)
77% affinity
bio 74% · poems 81%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
76% affinity
Shared: social
bio 70% · poems 84%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
76% affinity
bio 70% · poems 83%
John Oldham
9 August 1653–9 December 1683 (~30)
76% affinity
bio 70% · poems 83%
Walter Savage Landor
30 January 1775–17 September 1864 (~89)
76% affinity
bio 69% · poems 84%
Matthew Prior
c. July 1664–18 September 1721 (~57)
76% affinity
Shared: social, life
bio 73% · poems 79%
Richard Lovelace
1617–1657 (~40)
75% affinity
Shared: social
bio 69% · poems 83%