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.

John Lydgate

c. 1370–c. 1450 (~80)

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Poets whose work rhymes most with John Lydgate

c. 1554–November 1606 (~52)

1 poem analysed

Thomas Hoccleve

c. 1368–8 May 1426 (~58)

1 poem analysed

Shared: geoffrey chaucer, hundred years' war

Robert Mannyng of Brunne

1288–c. 1338 (~50)

1 poem analysed

Richard Edwardes

c. 1525–31 October 1566 (~41)

2 poems analysed

Robert Henryson

c. 1425–c. 1500 (~75)

1 poem analysed

Shared: medieval, abbey

Geoffrey Chaucer

c. 1343–25 October 1400 (~57)

2 poems analysed

Shared: hundred years' war, medieval

William Langland

c. 1332–c. 1400 (~68)

1 poem analysed

Shared: hundred years' war, black death, around

c. 1474–c. 1523 (~49)

1 poem analysed

Shared: medieval

Thomas, Lord Vaux

25 April 1509–c. October 1556 (~47)

2 poems analysed

c. 1528–2 July 1593 (~65)

1 poem analysed

Edward Hovell-Thurlow

10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)

2 poems analysed

Sir John Beaumont

c. 1583–19 April 1627 (~44)

1 poem analysed