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 Philip Arthur Larkin
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
80% affinity
Shared: life
bio 73% · poems 89%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
80% affinity
Shared: life
bio 73% · poems 88%
Dylan Thomas
27 October 1914–9 November 1953 (~39)
80% affinity
bio 73% · poems 89%
William Butler Yeats
13 June 1865–28 January 1939 (~74)
80% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 72% · poems 89%
Charles Lamb
10 February 1775–27 December 1834 (~59)
80% affinity
bio 73% · poems 88%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
80% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 72% · poems 88%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
79% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 73% · poems 87%
T. S. Eliot
26 September 1888–4 January 1965 (~77)
79% affinity
Shared: world, social
bio 71% · poems 89%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
79% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 72% · poems 87%
Laurence Binyon
10 August 1869–10 March 1943 (~74)
79% affinity
Shared: world
bio 73% · poems 85%
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
79% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 70% · poems 89%
Francis Ledwidge
19 August 1887–31 July 1917 (~30)
79% affinity
bio 72% · poems 87%