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 Louis Untermeyer
Edwin Markham
23 April 1852–7 March 1940 (~88)
82% affinity
Shared: self
bio 78% · poems 86%
Alfred Kreymborg
10 December 1883–14 August 1966 (~83)
81% affinity
Shared: new york city
bio 81% · poems 81%
Edgar Lee Masters
23 August 1868–5 March 1950 (~82)
80% affinity
bio 73% · poems 88%
John Van Alstyne Weaver
17 July 1893–14 June 1938 (~45)
80% affinity
bio 76% · poems 85%
Howard Phelps Putnam
1894–3 July 1948 (~54)
80% affinity
bio 74% · poems 86%
Nixon Waterman
12 November 1859–1 September 1944 (~85)
79% affinity
bio 75% · poems 85%
James Oppenheim
24 May 1882–4 August 1932 (~50)
79% affinity
Shared: new york city, beauty
bio 76% · poems 83%
Edgar A. Guest
20 August 1881–5 August 1959 (~78)
79% affinity
Shared: self
bio 74% · poems 85%
Mark Van Doren
13 June 1894–10 December 1972 (~78)
79% affinity
bio 76% · poems 83%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
79% affinity
Shared: divine
bio 72% · poems 87%
Archibald MacLeish
7 May 1892–20 April 1982 (~90)
79% affinity
bio 76% · poems 82%
Herbert Gorman
January 1893–28 October 1954 (~61)
79% affinity
Shared: new york city, self
bio 73% · poems 85%