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.

Francis Quarles

8 May 1592–8 September 1644 (~52)

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quarles life shortness divine lilies faith fleeting devotional

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Poets whose work rhymes most with Francis Quarles

Sir John Beaumont

c. 1583–19 April 1627 (~44)

1 poem analysed

Shared: religious

3 April 1593–1 March 1633 (~40)

2 poems analysed

Shared: devotional, religious, biblical

25 April 1792–29 March 1866 (~74)

1 poem analysed

Shared: religious

3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)

3 poems analysed

Shared: royalist

16 January 1592–30 September 1669 (~77)

1 poem analysed

Shared: religious

c. 1650–c. 1680 (~30)

1 poem analysed

Richard Lovelace

1617–1657 (~40)

10 poems analysed

Shared: royalist

Edward Hovell-Thurlow

10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)

2 poems analysed

Shared: culture

Sir Richard Fanshawe

12 June 1608–June 1666 (~58)

1 poem analysed

Shared: royalist

2 April 1884–20 December 1958 (~74)

1 poem analysed

Francis William Bourdillon

22 March 1852–13 January 1921 (~69)

1 poem analysed

Shared: religious, culture

Thomas Hoccleve

c. 1368–8 May 1426 (~58)

1 poem analysed