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 Leonard Bacon
William Ellery Leonard
25 January 1876–2 May 1944 (~68)
78% affinity
bio 74% · poems 83%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
77% affinity
bio 71% · poems 84%
Mark Van Doren
13 June 1894–10 December 1972 (~78)
77% affinity
Shared: pulitzer prize
bio 71% · poems 83%
Clifford Bax
13 July 1886–18 November 1962 (~76)
76% affinity
Shared: memory, philosophical
bio 70% · poems 84%
G. K. Chesterton
29 May 1874–14 June 1936 (~62)
76% affinity
Shared: divine
bio 71% · poems 82%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
76% affinity
Shared: beauty
bio 72% · poems 80%
Stephen Vincent Benét
22 July 1898–13 March 1943 (~45)
76% affinity
Shared: pulitzer prize, yale university
bio 72% · poems 80%
Edwin Arlington Robinson
22 December 1869–6 April 1935 (~66)
75% affinity
Shared: pulitzer prize
bio 67% · poems 85%
Howard Phelps Putnam
1894–3 July 1948 (~54)
75% affinity
Shared: yale university
bio 70% · poems 82%
Witter Bynner
10 August 1881–1 June 1968 (~87)
75% affinity
bio 70% · poems 81%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
75% affinity
Shared: beauty
bio 68% · poems 84%
William Rose Benét
2 February 1886–4 May 1950 (~64)
75% affinity
bio 71% · poems 80%