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 Lola Ridge
Edna St. Vincent Millay
22 February 1892–19 October 1950 (~58)
80% affinity
Shared: greenwich village
bio 74% · poems 87%
Mina Loy
27 December 1882–25 September 1966 (~84)
80% affinity
Shared: greenwich village, social
bio 74% · poems 86%
Alice Corbin
16 April 1881–18 July 1949 (~68)
79% affinity
Shared: editorial
bio 73% · poems 86%
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
5 November 1850–30 October 1919 (~69)
79% affinity
Shared: social, women
bio 72% · poems 87%
Amy Lowell
9 February 1874–12 May 1925 (~51)
78% affinity
Shared: social, woman
bio 72% · poems 86%
Genevieve Taggard
28 November 1894–8 November 1948 (~54)
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 72% · poems 85%
Helen Hoyt
22 January 1887–2 August 1972 (~85)
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 76% · poems 79%
Rose Hartwick Thorpe
18 July 1850–19 July 1939 (~89)
77% affinity
Shared: women
bio 71% · poems 85%
Edna Wahlert McCourt
19 July 1887–4 January 1963 (~76)
77% affinity
Shared: social, women
bio 74% · poems 80%
Lizette Woodworth Reese
9 January 1856–17 December 1935 (~79)
77% affinity
Shared: social, women
bio 72% · poems 84%
Sara Teasdale
8 August 1884–29 January 1933 (~49)
77% affinity
Shared: women, woman
bio 70% · poems 85%
Gwendolyn B. Bennett
8 July 1902–30 May 1981 (~79)
76% affinity
Shared: woman
bio 69% · poems 85%