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 William Langland
John Lydgate
c. 1370–c. 1450 (~80)
75% affinity
Shared: hundred years' war, black death, around
bio 75%
Robert Mannyng of Brunne
1288–c. 1338 (~50)
73% affinity
Shared: around
bio 73%
William Barnes
22 February 1801–7 October 1886 (~85)
71% affinity
bio 71%
Michael Drayton
1563–December 1631 (~68)
71% affinity
bio 71%
Robert Henryson
c. 1425–c. 1500 (~75)
71% affinity
bio 71%
William Barley
c. 1565–1614 (~49)
70% affinity
Shared: london
bio 70%
Robert Wever
c. 1520–c. 1570 (~50)
70% affinity
bio 70%
Edmund Waller
3 March 1606–21 October 1687 (~81)
70% affinity
Shared: social
bio 70%
Geoffrey Chaucer
c. 1343–25 October 1400 (~57)
70% affinity
Shared: hundred years' war, london, social
bio 70%
Thomas Hoccleve
c. 1368–8 May 1426 (~58)
69% affinity
Shared: hundred years' war, london, around
bio 69%
Nicholas Grimald
c. 1519–c. May 1562 (~43)
69% affinity
Shared: around
bio 69%
Abraham Cowley
1618–28 July 1667 (~49)
69% affinity
Shared: london
bio 69%