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 Charles Dickens
Charles Whitehead
4 October 1804–5 July 1862 (~58)
73% affinity
Shared: social, london
bio 73%
Tobias George Smollett
c. 19 March 1721–17 September 1771 (~50)
72% affinity
Shared: social, london
bio 72%
William Makepeace Thackeray
18 July 1811–24 December 1863 (~52)
72% affinity
Shared: social, novels
bio 72%
Charles Kingsley
12 June 1819–23 January 1875 (~56)
71% affinity
Shared: social
bio 71%
Oliver Goldsmith
c. 10 November 1728–4 April 1774 (~46)
71% affinity
Shared: social, london
bio 71%
Edward James Mortimer Collins
29 June 1827–28 July 1876 (~49)
70% affinity
Shared: social
bio 70%
Charles Lamb
10 February 1775–27 December 1834 (~59)
68% affinity
Shared: london, childhood
bio 68%
Robert Louis Stevenson
13 November 1850–3 December 1894 (~44)
68% affinity
Shared: social, imagination
bio 68%
Thomas Hardy
2 June 1840–11 January 1928 (~88)
68% affinity
Shared: social, novels
bio 68%
T. S. Eliot
26 September 1888–4 January 1965 (~77)
67% affinity
Shared: social, london
bio 67%
J.G. Holland
24 July 1819–12 October 1881 (~62)
67% affinity
Shared: social
bio 67%
Thomas Love Peacock
18 October 1785–23 January 1866 (~81)
67% affinity
Shared: social, imagination, novels
bio 67%