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 d'Urfey
Alexander Brome
1620–30 June 1666 (~46)
79% affinity
Shared: songs, restoration
bio 75% · poems 84%
Henry Carey
c. 26 August 1687–5 October 1743 (~56)
78% affinity
Shared: political satire, songs
bio 73% · poems 83%
John Dryden
9 August 1631–12 May 1700 (~69)
76% affinity
Shared: restoration
bio 71% · poems 83%
John Oldham
9 August 1653–9 December 1683 (~30)
76% affinity
Shared: restoration
bio 68% · poems 86%
Thomas Shadwell
c. 1642–19 November 1692 (~50)
76% affinity
Shared: restoration comedy, restoration
bio 72% · poems 80%
William Cartwright
1 September 1611–29 November 1643 (~32)
75% affinity
bio 69% · poems 83%
John Wilmot
1 April 1647–26 July 1680 (~33)
75% affinity
Shared: charles ii, restoration
bio 68% · poems 84%
Sir William Davenant
c. February 1606–7 April 1668 (~62)
75% affinity
Shared: restoration
bio 75%
Richard Edwardes
c. 1525–31 October 1566 (~41)
75% affinity
Shared: divine, life
bio 72% · poems 78%
Charles Webbe
c. 1650–c. 1680 (~30)
75% affinity
Shared: charles ii, henry purcell, songs
bio 69% · poems 82%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
75% affinity
Shared: beauty
bio 69% · poems 82%
Ben Jonson
c. 11 June 1572–6 August 1637 (~65)
75% affinity
Shared: comedy
bio 69% · poems 82%