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 Hogg
Sir Walter Scott
15 August 1771–21 September 1832 (~61)
73% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 73%
James Beattie
25 October 1735–18 August 1803 (~68)
72% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 72%
John Gibson Lockhart
12 June 1794–25 November 1854 (~60)
71% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 71%
John Scott
9 January 1730–12 December 1783 (~53)
70% affinity
bio 70%
Allan Ramsay
c. 15 October 1684–7 January 1758 (~74)
69% affinity
Shared: shepherd, scottish
bio 69%
William Drummond
13 December 1585–4 December 1649 (~64)
69% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 69%
Alexander Scott
c. 1525–c. 1584 (~59)
69% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 69%
Edmund William Gosse
21 September 1849–16 May 1928 (~79)
68% affinity
bio 68%
Tobias George Smollett
c. 19 March 1721–17 September 1771 (~50)
68% affinity
Shared: novel
bio 68%
Alexander Montgomerie
c. 1545–August 1598 (~53)
67% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 67%
William Bell Scott
12 September 1811–22 November 1890 (~79)
67% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 67%
Robert Fergusson
5 September 1750–16 October 1774 (~24)
67% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 67%