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 Charles Stuart Calverley
William Oldys
14 July 1696–15 April 1761 (~65)
74% affinity
Shared: scholarship
bio 74%
Abraham Cowley
1618–28 July 1667 (~49)
74% affinity
bio 74%
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
28 July 1802–15 July 1839 (~37)
74% affinity
bio 74%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Alexander Brome
1620–30 June 1666 (~46)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Leonard Bacon
26 May 1887–1 January 1954 (~67)
73% affinity
bio 73%
George John Cayley
26 January 1826–11 October 1878 (~52)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Charles Cotton
28 April 1630–16 February 1687 (~57)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Mark Alexander Boyd
1563–1601 (~38)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Andrew Marvell
31 March 1621–16 August 1678 (~57)
72% affinity
bio 72%
John Stuart Blackie
28 July 1809–2 March 1895 (~86)
72% affinity
Shared: scholarship, light
bio 72%
G. K. Chesterton
29 May 1874–14 June 1936 (~62)
72% affinity
bio 72%