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 Reynolds

c. 1588–c. 1655 (~67)

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Poets whose work rhymes most with John Reynolds

George Gascoigne

c. 1539–7 October 1577 (~38)

2 poems analysed

c. 11 July 1558–3 September 1592 (~34)

1 poem analysed

Richard Rowlands

c. 1550–c. 1640 (~90)

1 poem analysed

Shared: protestant

1 April 1647–26 July 1680 (~33)

3 poems analysed

Tobias George Smollett

c. 19 March 1721–17 September 1771 (~50)

1 poem analysed

Shared: fiction

17 April 1586–c. 1639 (~53)

2 poems analysed

Sir Walter Raleigh

c. 1554–29 October 1618 (~64)

2 poems analysed

Shared: protestant

3 March 1652–14 April 1685 (~33)

1 poem analysed

September 1596–29 October 1666 (~70)

1 poem analysed

c. 1574–August 1641 (~67)

2 poems analysed

William Congreve

24 January 1670–19 January 1729 (~59)

1 poem analysed

Thomas Chatterton

20 November 1752–24 August 1770 (~18)

5 poems analysed