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 Nathaniel Parker Willis
James Russell Lowell
22 February 1819–12 August 1891 (~72)
78% affinity
Shared: social, culture
bio 78%
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
11 November 1836–19 March 1907 (~71)
76% affinity
Shared: social, culture
bio 76%
J.G. Holland
24 July 1819–12 October 1881 (~62)
74% affinity
Shared: social
bio 74%
Maurice Thompson
9 September 1844–15 February 1901 (~57)
74% affinity
bio 74%
George Edward Woodberry
12 May 1855–2 January 1930 (~75)
73% affinity
bio 73%
John Van Alstyne Weaver
17 July 1893–14 June 1938 (~45)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Bayard Taylor
11 January 1825–19 December 1878 (~53)
73% affinity
Shared: culture
bio 73%
Richard Le Gallienne
20 January 1866–15 September 1947 (~81)
73% affinity
Shared: culture
bio 73%
John Gould Fletcher
3 January 1886–20 May 1950 (~64)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Edward James Mortimer Collins
29 June 1827–28 July 1876 (~49)
72% affinity
Shared: social, culture
bio 72%
Robert Nichols
6 September 1893–17 December 1944 (~51)
71% affinity
bio 71%