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 James Stephens
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
81% affinity
Shared: imaginative, life
bio 76% · poems 86%
William Butler Yeats
13 June 1865–28 January 1939 (~74)
81% affinity
Shared: irish literary revival, irish
bio 76% · poems 86%
George William Russell
10 April 1867–17 July 1935 (~68)
79% affinity
Shared: irish literary revival
bio 73% · poems 87%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
78% affinity
Shared: power, life
bio 72% · poems 86%
Wallace Stevens
2 October 1879–2 August 1955 (~76)
78% affinity
Shared: philosophical, nature
bio 71% · poems 86%
James Joyce
2 February 1882–13 January 1941 (~59)
78% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 71% · poems 85%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
77% affinity
Shared: life
bio 70% · poems 86%
Trumbull Stickney
20 June 1874–11 October 1904 (~30)
77% affinity
bio 70% · poems 86%
Stephen Phillips
28 July 1864–9 December 1915 (~51)
77% affinity
bio 71% · poems 84%
Arthur Hugh Clough
1 January 1819–13 November 1861 (~42)
77% affinity
Shared: life
bio 70% · poems 85%
Joseph Campbell
15 July 1879–6 June 1944 (~65)
77% affinity
Shared: irish literary revival, irish
bio 70% · poems 85%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
76% affinity
Shared: helped
bio 69% · poems 85%