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 Hoffenstein
John Van Alstyne Weaver
17 July 1893–14 June 1938 (~45)
79% affinity
Shared: jazz age, hollywood
bio 74% · poems 86%
Robert Herrick
24 August 1591–15 October 1674 (~83)
75% affinity
Shared: love, life
bio 67% · poems 85%
James Oppenheim
24 May 1882–4 August 1932 (~50)
75% affinity
Shared: new york city, york
bio 70% · poems 81%
Ben King
17 March 1857–8 April 1894 (~37)
75% affinity
Shared: light verse, humor
bio 70% · poems 80%
Edgar A. Guest
20 August 1881–5 August 1959 (~78)
75% affinity
Shared: love
bio 68% · poems 83%
Howard Phelps Putnam
1894–3 July 1948 (~54)
75% affinity
Shared: life
bio 68% · poems 83%
Sadakichi Hartmann
8 November 1867–22 November 1944 (~77)
75% affinity
Shared: world
bio 73% · poems 77%
Humbert Wolfe
5 January 1885–5 January 1940 (~55)
74% affinity
Shared: love
bio 67% · poems 83%
Witter Bynner
10 August 1881–1 June 1968 (~87)
74% affinity
Shared: love
bio 68% · poems 81%
Maxwell Bodenheim
26 May 1892–6 February 1954 (~62)
74% affinity
Shared: jazz age, york
bio 67% · poems 82%
Louis Untermeyer
1 October 1885–18 December 1977 (~92)
74% affinity
Shared: new york city, light
bio 69% · poems 79%
George O'Neil
13 September 1896–23 May 1940 (~44)
74% affinity
Shared: hollywood
bio 71% · poems 77%