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 Wallace Stevens
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
81% affinity
Shared: world, death
bio 74% · poems 91%
Robert Frost
26 March 1874–29 January 1963 (~89)
81% affinity
Shared: world, nature
bio 74% · poems 89%
T. S. Eliot
26 September 1888–4 January 1965 (~77)
80% affinity
Shared: harvard university, george santayana
bio 72% · poems 89%
Edmund Clarence Stedman
8 October 1833–18 January 1908 (~75)
80% affinity
Shared: hartford, world
bio 74% · poems 88%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
80% affinity
Shared: philosophical, imagination
bio 72% · poems 89%
Howard Phelps Putnam
1894–3 July 1948 (~54)
79% affinity
bio 73% · poems 87%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
79% affinity
Shared: world, nature
bio 71% · poems 89%
Stephen Phillips
28 July 1864–9 December 1915 (~51)
79% affinity
Shared: death, beauty
bio 72% · poems 88%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
79% affinity
Shared: imagination, world
bio 71% · poems 88%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
79% affinity
Shared: relationship, world, nature
bio 70% · poems 89%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
79% affinity
Shared: world, death
bio 71% · poems 89%
Robert Nichols
6 September 1893–17 December 1944 (~51)
79% affinity
Shared: philosophical
bio 71% · poems 89%