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 Lascelles Abercrombie
George Darley
December 1795–23 November 1846 (~51)
80% affinity
bio 80%
Abraham Cowley
1618–28 July 1667 (~49)
79% affinity
bio 79%
Gordon Bottomley
20 February 1874–25 August 1948 (~74)
78% affinity
Shared: georgian poetry
bio 78%
Robert Williams Buchanan
18 August 1841–10 June 1901 (~60)
77% affinity
bio 77%
Richard Aldington
8 July 1892–27 July 1962 (~70)
77% affinity
bio 77%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
76% affinity
bio 76%
Sir Robert Ayton
1570–25 February 1638 (~68)
76% affinity
bio 76%
William Watson
2 August 1858–11 August 1935 (~77)
76% affinity
Shared: tradition
bio 76%
Archibald MacLeish
7 May 1892–20 April 1982 (~90)
76% affinity
bio 76%
John Davidson
11 April 1857–23 March 1909 (~52)
76% affinity
Shared: imagination
bio 76%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
76% affinity
bio 76%
Clifford Bax
13 July 1886–18 November 1962 (~76)
76% affinity
Shared: philosophical
bio 76%