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 Conrad Aiken
Countee Cullen
30 May 1903–9 January 1946 (~43)
74% affinity
Shared: identity
bio 74%
Wallace Stevens
2 October 1879–2 August 1955 (~76)
73% affinity
Shared: george santayana, harvard
bio 73%
Lascelles Abercrombie
9 January 1881–27 October 1938 (~57)
73% affinity
Shared: philosophical
bio 73%
Edward Coote Pinkney
1 October 1802–11 April 1828 (~26)
73% affinity
bio 73%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
72% affinity
bio 72%
John Gould Fletcher
3 January 1886–20 May 1950 (~64)
72% affinity
Shared: pulitzer prize for poetry
bio 72%
Archibald MacLeish
7 May 1892–20 April 1982 (~90)
72% affinity
Shared: harvard
bio 72%
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
72% affinity
bio 72%
George Edward Woodberry
12 May 1855–2 January 1930 (~75)
71% affinity
Shared: harvard, philosophical
bio 71%
Madison Julius Cawein
23 March 1865–8 December 1914 (~49)
71% affinity
bio 71%
William Rose Benét
2 February 1886–4 May 1950 (~64)
71% affinity
bio 71%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
71% affinity
Shared: memory
bio 71%