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 Oldys
William Broome
30 April 1689–16 November 1745 (~56)
78% affinity
Shared: eighteenth
bio 78%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
78% affinity
bio 78%
John Oldham
9 August 1653–9 December 1683 (~30)
78% affinity
bio 78%
Samuel Rogers
30 July 1763–18 December 1855 (~92)
77% affinity
Shared: memory
bio 77%
Sir Henry Wotton
30 March 1568–December 1639 (~71)
77% affinity
bio 77%
William Philpot
16 April 1823–16 April 1889 (~66)
77% affinity
Shared: history
bio 77%
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
76% affinity
Shared: scholarship, history
bio 76%
Abraham Cowley
1618–28 July 1667 (~49)
76% affinity
bio 76%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
76% affinity
Shared: history
bio 76%
Alexander Brome
1620–30 June 1666 (~46)
76% affinity
bio 76%
Henry Newbolt
6 June 1862–19 April 1938 (~76)
76% affinity
Shared: history
bio 76%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
76% affinity
Shared: memory
bio 76%