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 George Santayana
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
73% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 73%
George Sterling
1 December 1869–17 November 1926 (~57)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Witter Bynner
10 August 1881–1 June 1968 (~87)
73% affinity
Shared: harvard, gave
bio 73%
G. K. Chesterton
29 May 1874–14 June 1936 (~62)
72% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 72%
Ralph Waldo Emerson
25 May 1803–27 April 1882 (~79)
72% affinity
Shared: harvard, religious
bio 72%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
72% affinity
Shared: memory
bio 72%
George Edward Woodberry
12 May 1855–2 January 1930 (~75)
71% affinity
Shared: harvard, philosophy, philosophical
bio 71%
Sadakichi Hartmann
8 November 1867–22 November 1944 (~77)
70% affinity
Shared: boston
bio 70%
Wallace Stevens
2 October 1879–2 August 1955 (~76)
70% affinity
Shared: harvard, religious
bio 70%
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
1836–1870 (~34)
70% affinity
Shared: madrid, spanish
bio 70%
Nicholas Breton
c. 1554–c. 1625 (~71)
70% affinity
bio 70%
Antonio Machado
26 July 1875–22 February 1939 (~64)
70% affinity
Shared: spanish, philosophical
bio 70%