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 Ralph Hodgson
Gerald Gould
9 April 1885–2 November 1936 (~51)
81% affinity
Shared: world
bio 79% · poems 82%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
81% affinity
Shared: world
bio 76% · poems 86%
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
2 June 1878–26 May 1962 (~84)
81% affinity
Shared: world
bio 79% · poems 83%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
80% affinity
Shared: reputation
bio 77% · poems 82%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
80% affinity
Shared: imaginative, world
bio 76% · poems 84%
Gerard Manley Hopkins
28 July 1844–8 June 1889 (~45)
79% affinity
Shared: world, beauty
bio 76% · poems 83%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
79% affinity
Shared: world, beauty
bio 77% · poems 81%
Humbert Wolfe
5 January 1885–5 January 1940 (~55)
79% affinity
Shared: suffering
bio 75% · poems 83%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
78% affinity
Shared: poems, georgian poetry
bio 76% · poems 82%
Robert Herrick
24 August 1591–15 October 1674 (~83)
78% affinity
Shared: world, beauty
bio 72% · poems 86%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
78% affinity
Shared: world
bio 73% · poems 83%
Francis William Bourdillon
22 March 1852–13 January 1921 (~69)
78% affinity
bio 78%