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 Henry Augustin Beers
George Edward Woodberry
12 May 1855–2 January 1930 (~75)
78% affinity
Shared: ralph waldo emerson
bio 78%
Henry Van Dyke
10 November 1852–10 April 1933 (~81)
76% affinity
bio 76%
Mark Van Doren
13 June 1894–10 December 1972 (~78)
76% affinity
bio 76%
Louis Untermeyer
1 October 1885–18 December 1977 (~92)
75% affinity
Shared: academic
bio 75%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
74% affinity
bio 74%
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
74% affinity
bio 74%
William Oldys
14 July 1696–15 April 1761 (~65)
73% affinity
Shared: history, scholarship
bio 73%
James Russell Lowell
22 February 1819–12 August 1891 (~72)
73% affinity
bio 73%
John Vance Cheney
29 December 1848–1 May 1922 (~74)
73% affinity
bio 73%
John Kenyon
2 December 1784–3 December 1856 (~72)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Henry Newbolt
6 June 1862–19 April 1938 (~76)
72% affinity
Shared: history
bio 72%