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 Thomas Jordan
Jasper Mayne
23 November 1604–6 December 1672 (~68)
76% affinity
Shared: royalist, restoration
bio 76%
Alexander Brome
1620–30 June 1666 (~46)
75% affinity
Shared: royalist, london
bio 75%
Ben Jonson
c. 11 June 1572–6 August 1637 (~65)
74% affinity
Shared: london
bio 74%
William Cartwright
1 September 1611–29 November 1643 (~32)
74% affinity
Shared: royalist
bio 74%
Sir William Davenant
c. February 1606–7 April 1668 (~62)
73% affinity
Shared: royalist
bio 73%
Thomas Randolph
15 June 1605–March 1635 (~30)
73% affinity
Shared: comedy
bio 73%
Anthony Munday
c. 13 October 1560–10 August 1633 (~73)
73% affinity
Shared: london, civic
bio 73%
William Strode
c. 11 January 1602–1645 (~43)
73% affinity
Shared: royalist
bio 73%
George Gascoigne
c. 1539–7 October 1577 (~38)
73% affinity
bio 73%
James Shirley
September 1596–29 October 1666 (~70)
72% affinity
Shared: london
bio 72%
William Alexander
c. 1567–12 February 1640 (~73)
71% affinity
bio 71%
John Oldham
9 August 1653–9 December 1683 (~30)
71% affinity
Shared: restoration
bio 71%