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
Paul Laurence Dunbar
27 June 1872–9 February 1906 (~34)
83% affinity
bio 79% · poems 88%
Thomas Campbell
27 July 1777–15 June 1844 (~67)
83% affinity
bio 78% · poems 89%
Joseph Campbell
15 July 1879–6 June 1944 (~65)
82% affinity
Shared: culture
bio 76% · poems 90%
George Marion McClellan
29 September 1860–17 May 1934 (~74)
82% affinity
Shared: paul laurence dunbar
bio 79% · poems 86%
John Wesley Holloway
28 July 1865–31 October 1935 (~70)
81% affinity
Shared: african
bio 78% · poems 86%
Charles Bertram Johnson
5 October 1880–20 March 1958 (~78)
81% affinity
Shared: paul laurence dunbar, speech
bio 76% · poems 87%
Countee Cullen
30 May 1903–9 January 1946 (~43)
81% affinity
Shared: african
bio 75% · poems 89%
Raymond Garfield Dandridge
c. 1882–24 February 1930 (~48)
80% affinity
Shared: paul laurence dunbar
bio 76% · poems 85%
Benjamin Griffith Brawley
22 April 1882–1 February 1939 (~57)
80% affinity
Shared: african
bio 75% · poems 86%
Otto Leland Bohanan
c. 1895–6 December 1932 (~37)
80% affinity
bio 74% · poems 86%
Lucian B. Watkins
25 May 1879–2 February 1921 (~42)
79% affinity
Shared: african, soul
bio 73% · poems 86%
James Weldon Johnson
17 June 1871–26 June 1938 (~67)
79% affinity
bio 73% · poems 86%