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 Jessie R. Fauset
Georgia Douglas Johnson
10 September 1880–15 May 1966 (~86)
78% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance, women
bio 78%
Frances E. W. Harper
24 September 1825–22 February 1911 (~86)
76% affinity
Shared: women, philadelphia
bio 76%
Alice Dunbar Nelson
19 July 1875–18 September 1935 (~60)
76% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance, women
bio 76%
Gwendolyn B. Bennett
8 July 1902–30 May 1981 (~79)
76% affinity
Shared: the crisis, harlem renaissance
bio 76%
Anne Spencer
6 February 1882–27 July 1975 (~93)
72% affinity
Shared: the crisis, harlem renaissance, dunbar high school
bio 72%
Joshua Henry Jones
1876–14 December 1955 (~79)
70% affinity
Shared: racial
bio 70%
Lydia Huntley Sigourney
1 September 1791–10 June 1865 (~74)
69% affinity
Shared: women
bio 69%
Edna Wahlert McCourt
19 July 1887–4 January 1963 (~76)
69% affinity
Shared: women
bio 69%
Eunice Tietjens
29 July 1884–6 September 1944 (~60)
68% affinity
Shared: women
bio 68%
Helen Hunt Jackson
15 October 1830–12 August 1885 (~55)
68% affinity
Shared: women, novel
bio 68%
Elizabeth Stoddard
6 May 1823–1 August 1902 (~79)
68% affinity
Shared: women, novel
bio 68%
Phillis Wheatley
c. 1753–5 December 1784 (~31)
68% affinity
bio 68%