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 George Orwell
Henry David Thoreau
12 July 1817–6 May 1862 (~45)
67% affinity
bio 67%
G. K. Chesterton
29 May 1874–14 June 1936 (~62)
66% affinity
bio 66%
Charles Dickens
7 February 1812–9 June 1870 (~58)
65% affinity
Shared: london
bio 65%
Ford Madox Hueffer
17 December 1873–26 June 1939 (~66)
65% affinity
bio 65%
Henry Newbolt
6 June 1862–19 April 1938 (~76)
65% affinity
bio 65%
George Santayana
16 December 1863–26 September 1952 (~89)
65% affinity
bio 65%
Matthew Arnold
24 December 1822–15 April 1888 (~66)
65% affinity
Shared: class
bio 65%
Charles Sorley
19 May 1895–13 October 1915 (~20)
65% affinity
bio 65%
Samuel Johnson
18 September 1709–13 December 1784 (~75)
64% affinity
Shared: essays, london
bio 64%
Lord Byron
22 January 1788–19 April 1824 (~36)
64% affinity
bio 64%
Siegfried Sassoon
8 September 1886–1 September 1967 (~81)
64% affinity
bio 64%
James Oppenheim
24 May 1882–4 August 1932 (~50)
64% affinity
bio 64%