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 James Russell Lowell
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
86% affinity
bio 81% · poems 93%
Amy Lowell
9 February 1874–12 May 1925 (~51)
83% affinity
Shared: boston, social
bio 78% · poems 90%
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
11 November 1836–19 March 1907 (~71)
81% affinity
Shared: atlantic monthly
bio 80% · poems 83%
J.G. Holland
24 July 1819–12 October 1881 (~62)
81% affinity
Shared: social
bio 75% · poems 88%
Ralph Waldo Emerson
25 May 1803–27 April 1882 (~79)
80% affinity
Shared: boston, harvard college, social
bio 73% · poems 88%
Edwin Markham
23 April 1852–7 March 1940 (~88)
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 76% · poems 85%
Edgar Lee Masters
23 August 1868–5 March 1950 (~82)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 72% · poems 88%
William Cullen Bryant
3 November 1794–12 June 1878 (~84)
79% affinity
bio 72% · poems 86%
John Greenleaf Whittier
17 December 1807–7 September 1892 (~85)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 85%
T. S. Eliot
26 September 1888–4 January 1965 (~77)
78% affinity
Shared: social, spiritual
bio 72% · poems 85%
James Whitcomb Riley
7 October 1849–22 July 1916 (~67)
78% affinity
Shared: significant
bio 72% · poems 86%
William Lisle Bowles
24 September 1762–7 April 1850 (~88)
78% affinity
bio 70% · poems 88%