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 Howard Phelps Putnam
Trumbull Stickney
20 June 1874–11 October 1904 (~30)
81% affinity
bio 80% · poems 82%
William Carlos Williams
17 September 1883–4 March 1963 (~80)
80% affinity
Shared: speech, life
bio 79% · poems 82%
T. S. Eliot
26 September 1888–4 January 1965 (~77)
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 75% · poems 86%
Louis Untermeyer
1 October 1885–18 December 1977 (~92)
80% affinity
Shared: self
bio 74% · poems 86%
Wallace Stevens
2 October 1879–2 August 1955 (~76)
79% affinity
bio 73% · poems 87%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
79% affinity
Shared: gave
bio 74% · poems 86%
Arthur Hugh Clough
1 January 1819–13 November 1861 (~42)
79% affinity
Shared: social, life, self
bio 73% · poems 87%
Mark Van Doren
13 June 1894–10 December 1972 (~78)
79% affinity
bio 74% · poems 85%
Nixon Waterman
12 November 1859–1 September 1944 (~85)
79% affinity
Shared: rose, life
bio 73% · poems 86%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
79% affinity
Shared: gave, life
bio 74% · poems 85%
Stephen Phillips
28 July 1864–9 December 1915 (~51)
79% affinity
Shared: gave
bio 75% · poems 83%
Witter Bynner
10 August 1881–1 June 1968 (~87)
79% affinity
Shared: social, gave
bio 74% · poems 84%