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 Christopher Smart
Mark Akenside
9 November 1721–23 June 1770 (~49)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Ebenezer Jones
20 January 1820–14 September 1860 (~40)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Richard Jago
1 October 1715–8 May 1781 (~66)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Matthew Prior
c. July 1664–18 September 1721 (~57)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Alexander Pope
21 May 1688–30 May 1744 (~56)
72% affinity
bio 72%
John Davidson
11 April 1857–23 March 1909 (~52)
72% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 72%
John Keble
25 April 1792–29 March 1866 (~74)
72% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 72%
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
30 June 1803–26 January 1849 (~46)
72% affinity
bio 72%
George Gascoigne
c. 1539–7 October 1577 (~38)
71% affinity
bio 71%
Gerard Manley Hopkins
28 July 1844–8 June 1889 (~45)
71% affinity
bio 71%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
71% affinity
bio 71%
Joshua Sylvester
1563–28 September 1618 (~55)
71% affinity
Shared: religious, biblical
bio 71%