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 William Congreve
Sir George Etherege
c. 1635–c. 10 May 1692 (~57)
80% affinity
Shared: comedy, social, play
bio 80%
Ben Jonson
c. 11 June 1572–6 August 1637 (~65)
75% affinity
Shared: comedy, social, play
bio 75%
Thomas Otway
3 March 1652–14 April 1685 (~33)
75% affinity
Shared: play, restoration
bio 75%
Francis Beaumont
1584–6 March 1616 (~32)
75% affinity
Shared: play, plays
bio 75%
Thomas Heywood
c. 1574–August 1641 (~67)
75% affinity
Shared: social, play
bio 75%
John Gay
30 June 1685–4 December 1732 (~47)
74% affinity
Shared: jonathan swift, social, play
bio 74%
Thomas Shadwell
c. 1642–19 November 1692 (~50)
74% affinity
Shared: john dryden, restoration comedy, comedy
bio 74%
John Fletcher
20 December 1579–29 August 1625 (~46)
74% affinity
Shared: play, plays, sexual
bio 74%
James Shirley
September 1596–29 October 1666 (~70)
74% affinity
Shared: restoration comedy, comedy, social
bio 74%
William Stevenson
c. 1530–1575 (~45)
73% affinity
Shared: comedy, play
bio 73%
Sir Charles Sedley
March 1639–20 August 1701 (~62)
73% affinity
Shared: social, play, restoration
bio 73%
Sir William Davenant
c. February 1606–7 April 1668 (~62)
73% affinity
Shared: restoration
bio 73%