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 John Crowe Ransom
Cale Young Rice
7 December 1872–24 January 1943 (~71)
82% affinity
Shared: death, life
bio 76% · poems 89%
Madison Julius Cawein
23 March 1865–8 December 1914 (~49)
78% affinity
Shared: death
bio 71% · poems 87%
Countee Cullen
30 May 1903–9 January 1946 (~43)
78% affinity
Shared: tradition, identity
bio 71% · poems 87%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
78% affinity
bio 72% · poems 85%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
78% affinity
bio 69% · poems 88%
Edwin Arlington Robinson
22 December 1869–6 April 1935 (~66)
78% affinity
Shared: death
bio 70% · poems 88%
John Gould Fletcher
3 January 1886–20 May 1950 (~64)
78% affinity
bio 74% · poems 83%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
78% affinity
Shared: death, life
bio 69% · poems 88%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
78% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 70% · poems 87%
Wallace Stevens
2 October 1879–2 August 1955 (~76)
78% affinity
Shared: death, world
bio 70% · poems 87%
Isaac Rosenberg
25 November 1890–1 April 1918 (~28)
77% affinity
Shared: death, life
bio 70% · poems 87%
William Watson
2 August 1858–11 August 1935 (~77)
77% affinity
Shared: tradition, life
bio 70% · poems 86%