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 Alice Dunbar Nelson
Georgia Douglas Johnson
10 September 1880–15 May 1966 (~86)
81% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance, women
bio 77% · poems 85%
Gwendolyn B. Bennett
8 July 1902–30 May 1981 (~79)
81% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance, woman
bio 77% · poems 86%
Paul Laurence Dunbar
27 June 1872–9 February 1906 (~34)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 72% · poems 88%
Alice Corbin
16 April 1881–18 July 1949 (~68)
79% affinity
Shared: love
bio 74% · poems 85%
Anne Spencer
6 February 1882–27 July 1975 (~93)
79% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance, woman
bio 76% · poems 83%
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
5 November 1850–30 October 1919 (~69)
77% affinity
Shared: women, woman, marriage
bio 70% · poems 86%
Frances E. W. Harper
24 September 1825–22 February 1911 (~86)
77% affinity
Shared: philadelphia, national association of colored women
bio 77% · poems 76%
Amelia Alderson Opie
12 November 1769–2 December 1853 (~84)
77% affinity
Shared: women, woman, social
bio 70% · poems 85%
Alice Meynell
11 October 1847–27 November 1922 (~75)
76% affinity
Shared: women, love
bio 71% · poems 82%
Edna St. Vincent Millay
22 February 1892–19 October 1950 (~58)
76% affinity
Shared: women, woman
bio 68% · poems 85%
Jessie R. Fauset
27 April 1882–30 April 1961 (~79)
76% affinity
Shared: philadelphia, harlem renaissance
bio 76%
Edna Wahlert McCourt
19 July 1887–4 January 1963 (~76)
76% affinity
Shared: women, social
bio 71% · poems 81%