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.

Barnabe Googe

11 June 1540–February 1594 (~54)

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desire sight pain love self mind reason

Rank by: Both (blended) Life & context Their poems

Poets whose work rhymes most with Barnabe Googe

George Turberville

c. 1540–c. 1597 (~57)

1 poem analysed

Sir Edward Dyer

c. October 1543–11 May 1607 (~64)

2 poems analysed

Shared: continental

Thomas, Lord Vaux

25 April 1509–c. October 1556 (~47)

2 poems analysed

Shared: cambridge university

1618–28 July 1667 (~49)

3 poems analysed

Michael Drayton

1563–December 1631 (~68)

1 poem analysed

Edmund William Gosse

21 September 1849–16 May 1928 (~79)

2 poems analysed

Shared: religious

c. 25 July 1556–9 November 1596 (~40)

2 poems analysed

Shared: pastoral

George Gascoigne

c. 1539–7 October 1577 (~38)

2 poems analysed

Shared: helped, culture

c. 1460–21 June 1529 (~69)

1 poem analysed

Shared: cambridge university, religious

c. 1558–15 September 1625 (~67)

1 poem analysed

Shared: pastoral

Sir Philip Sidney

30 November 1554–17 October 1586 (~32)

3 poems analysed

Shared: continental

30 April 1689–16 November 1745 (~56)

1 poem analysed