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 Maxwell Bodenheim
Witter Bynner
10 August 1881–1 June 1968 (~87)
78% affinity
bio 72% · poems 85%
James Oppenheim
24 May 1882–4 August 1932 (~50)
78% affinity
Shared: york, novels
bio 72% · poems 84%
Clifford Bax
13 July 1886–18 November 1962 (~76)
77% affinity
bio 71% · poems 85%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
77% affinity
Shared: life, death
bio 69% · poems 87%
Alfred Kreymborg
10 December 1883–14 August 1966 (~83)
77% affinity
Shared: greenwich village, life
bio 72% · poems 83%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
77% affinity
Shared: urban, life
bio 68% · poems 87%
John Van Alstyne Weaver
17 July 1893–14 June 1938 (~45)
76% affinity
Shared: jazz age, chicago
bio 70% · poems 85%
Edgar Lee Masters
23 August 1868–5 March 1950 (~82)
76% affinity
Shared: chicago renaissance, chicago
bio 66% · poems 89%
Humbert Wolfe
5 January 1885–5 January 1940 (~55)
76% affinity
bio 71% · poems 83%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
76% affinity
Shared: life
bio 70% · poems 84%
Thomas Hood
23 May 1799–3 May 1845 (~46)
76% affinity
Shared: life, death
bio 66% · poems 88%
Howard Phelps Putnam
1894–3 July 1948 (~54)
75% affinity
Shared: life
bio 69% · poems 84%