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 Timrod

8 December 1828–7 October 1867 (~39)

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Poets whose work rhymes most with Henry Timrod

Charles Bertram Johnson

5 October 1880–20 March 1958 (~78)

3 poems analysed

Francis Davison

c. 1575–c. 1619 (~44)

1 poem analysed

Charles Frederick White

1876–1955 (~79)

2 poems analysed

Waverley Turner Carmichael

1881–1936 (~55)

1 poem analysed

Roscoe C. Jamison

c. 1888–28 March 1918 (~30)

1 poem analysed

Shared: tuberculosis

John Wesley Holloway

28 July 1865–31 October 1935 (~70)

2 poems analysed

Joshua Henry Jones

1876–14 December 1955 (~79)

2 poems analysed

Shared: south carolina

Trumbull Stickney

20 June 1874–11 October 1904 (~30)

2 poems analysed

Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr.

2 September 1895–3 February 1919 (~24)

2 poems analysed

Shared: tuberculosis

1572–9 June 1656 (~84)

2 poems analysed

Lucian B. Watkins

25 May 1879–2 February 1921 (~42)

2 poems analysed

James D. Corrothers

2 July 1869–12 February 1917 (~48)

1 poem analysed