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 John Gay
Henry Carey
c. 26 August 1687–5 October 1743 (~56)
75% affinity
Shared: opera, london, social
bio 75%
William Congreve
24 January 1670–19 January 1729 (~59)
74% affinity
Shared: jonathan swift, social
bio 74%
Thomas d'Urfey
c. 1653–26 February 1723 (~70)
74% affinity
Shared: social
bio 74%
Sir George Etherege
c. 1635–c. 10 May 1692 (~57)
74% affinity
Shared: london, social, play
bio 74%
Thomas Otway
3 March 1652–14 April 1685 (~33)
73% affinity
Shared: london, play
bio 73%
George Gascoigne
c. 1539–7 October 1577 (~38)
73% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73%
Ben Jonson
c. 11 June 1572–6 August 1637 (~65)
72% affinity
Shared: london, social
bio 72%
Oliver Goldsmith
c. 10 November 1728–4 April 1774 (~46)
72% affinity
Shared: london, social
bio 72%
Sir Charles Sedley
March 1639–20 August 1701 (~62)
72% affinity
Shared: social, play
bio 72%
Thomas Shadwell
c. 1642–19 November 1692 (~50)
71% affinity
Shared: london, social
bio 71%
Robert Greene
c. 11 July 1558–3 September 1592 (~34)
71% affinity
Shared: london, social
bio 71%
William Stevenson
c. 1530–1575 (~45)
70% affinity
Shared: play
bio 70%