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 James Beattie
James Thomson
c. 11 September 1700–27 August 1748 (~48)
82% affinity
Shared: eighteenth, rural
bio 77% · poems 87%
Robert Burns
25 January 1759–21 July 1796 (~37)
81% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 75% · poems 87%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
80% affinity
Shared: life
bio 74% · poems 88%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
80% affinity
Shared: rural, landscape
bio 73% · poems 88%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
80% affinity
Shared: rural, life
bio 74% · poems 88%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
80% affinity
Shared: philosophical
bio 74% · poems 88%
William Drummond
13 December 1585–4 December 1649 (~64)
80% affinity
Shared: scottish, philosophical
bio 77% · poems 83%
William Bell Scott
12 September 1811–22 November 1890 (~79)
80% affinity
Shared: scottish enlightenment, scottish, landscape
bio 76% · poems 85%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
80% affinity
Shared: life, death
bio 73% · poems 88%
Arthur Hugh Clough
1 January 1819–13 November 1861 (~42)
80% affinity
bio 73% · poems 88%
Hartley Coleridge
19 September 1796–6 January 1849 (~53)
79% affinity
Shared: life
bio 72% · poems 88%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
79% affinity
Shared: life, nature
bio 73% · poems 87%