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.
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Listen to Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey's poems Compare with another poetPoets whose work rhymes most with Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Thomas, Lord Vaux
25 April 1509–c. October 1556 (~47)
79% affinity
Shared: henry viii, court
bio 79%
Sir Thomas Wyatt
c. 1503–11 October 1542 (~39)
77% affinity
Shared: henry viii, petrarchan sonnet, court
bio 77%
George Turberville
c. 1540–c. 1597 (~57)
76% affinity
Shared: blank verse, court
bio 76%
Sir Philip Sidney
30 November 1554–17 October 1586 (~32)
75% affinity
bio 75%
Sir Edward Dyer
c. October 1543–11 May 1607 (~64)
75% affinity
Shared: court
bio 75%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
74% affinity
bio 74%
John Sheffield
8 September 1647–24 February 1721 (~74)
74% affinity
Shared: court
bio 74%
Michael Drayton
1563–December 1631 (~68)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
73% affinity
bio 73%
John Dryden
9 August 1631–12 May 1700 (~69)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Fulke Greville
3 October 1554–30 September 1628 (~74)
73% affinity
Shared: court
bio 73%
J. C. Squire
2 April 1884–20 December 1958 (~74)
73% affinity
bio 73%