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 James Edwin Campbell
Thomas Campbell
27 July 1777–15 June 1844 (~67)
82% affinity
bio 78% · poems 87%
Paul Laurence Dunbar
27 June 1872–9 February 1906 (~34)
81% affinity
bio 79% · poems 84%
Joseph Campbell
15 July 1879–6 June 1944 (~65)
80% affinity
Shared: culture
bio 76% · poems 85%
John Wesley Holloway
28 July 1865–31 October 1935 (~70)
80% affinity
Shared: african
bio 78% · poems 83%
Countee Cullen
30 May 1903–9 January 1946 (~43)
80% affinity
Shared: african
bio 75% · poems 86%
George Marion McClellan
29 September 1860–17 May 1934 (~74)
79% affinity
Shared: paul laurence dunbar
bio 79% · poems 81%
Raymond Garfield Dandridge
c. 1882–24 February 1930 (~48)
79% affinity
Shared: paul laurence dunbar
bio 76% · poems 82%
James D. Corrothers
2 July 1869–12 February 1917 (~48)
79% affinity
Shared: paul laurence dunbar
bio 79%
Charles Bertram Johnson
5 October 1880–20 March 1958 (~78)
78% affinity
Shared: paul laurence dunbar, speech
bio 76% · poems 81%
Benjamin Griffith Brawley
22 April 1882–1 February 1939 (~57)
78% affinity
Shared: african
bio 75% · poems 82%
Otto Leland Bohanan
c. 1895–6 December 1932 (~37)
78% affinity
bio 74% · poems 82%
Waverley Turner Carmichael
1881–1936 (~55)
78% affinity
Shared: paul laurence dunbar
bio 78%