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 Robert Greene
George Peele
c. 25 July 1556–9 November 1596 (~40)
76% affinity
Shared: london
bio 76%
George Gascoigne
c. 1539–7 October 1577 (~38)
76% affinity
bio 76%
Nicholas Grimald
c. 1519–c. May 1562 (~43)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Barnabe Googe
11 June 1540–February 1594 (~54)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Christopher Marlowe
26 February 1564–30 May 1593 (~29)
72% affinity
bio 72%
James Shirley
September 1596–29 October 1666 (~70)
72% affinity
Shared: london, social
bio 72%
John Wilmot
1 April 1647–26 July 1680 (~33)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Sir Philip Sidney
30 November 1554–17 October 1586 (~32)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Charles Whitehead
4 October 1804–5 July 1862 (~58)
72% affinity
Shared: london, social
bio 72%
Oliver Goldsmith
c. 10 November 1728–4 April 1774 (~46)
71% affinity
Shared: london
bio 71%
George Turberville
c. 1540–c. 1597 (~57)
71% affinity
bio 71%
Fulke Greville
3 October 1554–30 September 1628 (~74)
71% affinity
bio 71%