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 Edward Taylor
Bayard Taylor
11 January 1825–19 December 1878 (~53)
83% affinity
bio 83%
Sir Henry Taylor
18 October 1800–27 March 1886 (~86)
82% affinity
Shared: colonial
bio 82%
Thomas Traherne
c. 1637–27 September 1674 (~37)
78% affinity
bio 78%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
78% affinity
bio 78%
Thomas Godfrey
4 December 1736–3 August 1763 (~27)
77% affinity
Shared: colonial
bio 77%
George Herbert
3 April 1593–1 March 1633 (~40)
77% affinity
Shared: religious, divine, biblical
bio 77%
Henry Vaughan
17 April 1621–23 April 1695 (~74)
77% affinity
Shared: religious, divine
bio 77%
John Keble
25 April 1792–29 March 1866 (~74)
77% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 77%
Henry King
16 January 1592–30 September 1669 (~77)
76% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 76%
William Watson
2 August 1858–11 August 1935 (~77)
76% affinity
bio 76%
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
76% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 76%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
76% affinity
Shared: religious, imagination
bio 76%