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 Kingsley
Robert Southey
12 August 1774–21 March 1843 (~69)
80% affinity
Shared: religious, social
bio 75% · poems 85%
Charles Mackay
27 March 1814–24 December 1889 (~75)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 74% · poems 86%
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 71% · poems 88%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 69% · poems 90%
G. K. Chesterton
29 May 1874–14 June 1936 (~62)
78% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 75% · poems 82%
Thomas Hardy
2 June 1840–11 January 1928 (~88)
78% affinity
Shared: novel, social
bio 70% · poems 88%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
78% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 72% · poems 86%
Barry Cornwall
21 November 1787–5 October 1874 (~87)
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 70% · poems 88%
John Masefield
1 June 1878–12 May 1967 (~89)
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 69% · poems 89%
Matthew Arnold
24 December 1822–15 April 1888 (~66)
77% affinity
Shared: religious, social
bio 71% · poems 86%
Thomas Love Peacock
18 October 1785–23 January 1866 (~81)
77% affinity
Shared: novel, social
bio 71% · poems 85%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
77% affinity
Shared: world, life
bio 69% · poems 87%