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 Samuel Johnson
Lionel Johnson
15 March 1867–4 October 1902 (~35)
81% affinity
Shared: london
bio 81%
Ben Jonson
c. 11 June 1572–6 August 1637 (~65)
77% affinity
Shared: london
bio 74% · poems 80%
Alexander Pope
21 May 1688–30 May 1744 (~56)
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 74% · poems 80%
Sir Henry Wotton
30 March 1568–December 1639 (~71)
76% affinity
Shared: social, life
bio 72% · poems 80%
John Dryden
9 August 1631–12 May 1700 (~69)
76% affinity
Shared: london
bio 74% · poems 77%
Charles Lamb
10 February 1775–27 December 1834 (~59)
75% affinity
Shared: essays
bio 71% · poems 81%
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
75% affinity
Shared: london, social
bio 71% · poems 81%
Charles Bertram Johnson
5 October 1880–20 March 1958 (~78)
75% affinity
Shared: life
bio 71% · poems 81%
Robert Southey
12 August 1774–21 March 1843 (~69)
75% affinity
Shared: social
bio 70% · poems 82%
Fenton Johnson
7 May 1888–17 September 1958 (~70)
75% affinity
bio 72% · poems 79%
Abraham Cowley
1618–28 July 1667 (~49)
75% affinity
Shared: london
bio 72% · poems 79%
John Oldham
9 August 1653–9 December 1683 (~30)
75% affinity
Shared: oxford
bio 71% · poems 79%