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 Edmund William Gosse
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
80% affinity
Shared: london
bio 76% · poems 86%
Robert Southey
12 August 1774–21 March 1843 (~69)
80% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 76% · poems 84%
Manmohan Ghose
19 January 1869–4 January 1924 (~55)
80% affinity
bio 75% · poems 85%
Sir Lewis Morris
23 January 1833–12 November 1907 (~74)
80% affinity
bio 73% · poems 87%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
80% affinity
Shared: life
bio 73% · poems 87%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
79% affinity
Shared: life
bio 71% · poems 89%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
79% affinity
Shared: childhood, life, world
bio 71% · poems 88%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
78% affinity
Shared: life
bio 71% · poems 88%
Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
8 November 1831–24 November 1891 (~60)
78% affinity
Shared: trinity college cambridge
bio 74% · poems 83%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
78% affinity
Shared: london, life
bio 71% · poems 87%
Gerard Manley Hopkins
28 July 1844–8 June 1889 (~45)
78% affinity
Shared: london, life
bio 73% · poems 85%
William Lisle Bowles
24 September 1762–7 April 1850 (~88)
78% affinity
Shared: world
bio 73% · poems 84%