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 Claude McKay
Countee Cullen
30 May 1903–9 January 1946 (~43)
80% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance, harlem
bio 74% · poems 87%
George Marion McClellan
29 September 1860–17 May 1934 (~74)
79% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance, harlem
bio 74% · poems 86%
Lucian B. Watkins
25 May 1879–2 February 1921 (~42)
78% affinity
Shared: world
bio 72% · poems 85%
Langston Hughes
1 February 1902–22 May 1967 (~65)
76% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance, harlem
bio 69% · poems 85%
James Clarence Mangan
1 May 1803–20 June 1849 (~46)
76% affinity
Shared: death
bio 69% · poems 85%
Fenton Johnson
7 May 1888–17 September 1958 (~70)
76% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance, racial
bio 69% · poems 85%
Archibald MacLeish
7 May 1892–20 April 1982 (~90)
76% affinity
Shared: world, history
bio 69% · poems 84%
Charles Frederick White
1876–1955 (~79)
76% affinity
bio 71% · poems 82%
James Edwin Campbell
28 September 1867–26 January 1896 (~29)
76% affinity
bio 67% · poems 86%
Edwin Markham
23 April 1852–7 March 1940 (~88)
76% affinity
bio 69% · poems 83%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
76% affinity
Shared: harlem, racial, world
bio 70% · poems 82%
George Reginald Margetson
1877–c. 1952 (~75)
76% affinity
Shared: caribbean, racial
bio 76%