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 Richard Crashaw
Francis Thompson
18 December 1859–13 November 1907 (~48)
72% affinity
Shared: london, catholic, religious
bio 72%
Thomas Carew
1595–22 March 1640 (~45)
70% affinity
bio 70%
Arthur Hugh Clough
1 January 1819–13 November 1861 (~42)
70% affinity
Shared: religious, faith
bio 70%
Robert Southwell
c. 1561–21 February 1595 (~34)
70% affinity
Shared: baroque, catholic, religious
bio 70%
Gerard Manley Hopkins
28 July 1844–8 June 1889 (~45)
70% affinity
Shared: london, catholic
bio 70%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
70% affinity
Shared: london
bio 70%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
69% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 69%
Robert Stephen Hawker
3 December 1803–15 August 1875 (~72)
69% affinity
Shared: london, catholic, faith
bio 69%
Algernon Charles Swinburne
5 April 1837–10 April 1909 (~72)
69% affinity
Shared: london
bio 69%
Lascelles Abercrombie
9 January 1881–27 October 1938 (~57)
69% affinity
bio 69%
George Herbert
3 April 1593–1 March 1633 (~40)
69% affinity
Shared: nicholas ferrar, religious, devotional
bio 69%
Abraham Cowley
1618–28 July 1667 (~49)
69% affinity
Shared: london, english civil war
bio 69%