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 John Ruskin
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
74% affinity
bio 74%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
73% affinity
Shared: childhood
bio 73%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
73% affinity
Shared: london
bio 73%
William Shenstone
18 November 1714–11 February 1763 (~49)
73% affinity
Shared: social, landscape
bio 73%
George William Russell
10 April 1867–17 July 1935 (~68)
73% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73%
William Bell Scott
12 September 1811–22 November 1890 (~79)
72% affinity
Shared: landscape, industrial
bio 72%
William Watson
2 August 1858–11 August 1935 (~77)
72% affinity
bio 72%
William Morris
24 March 1834–3 October 1896 (~62)
72% affinity
Shared: oxford
bio 72%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
72% affinity
Shared: london
bio 72%
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
12 May 1828–9 April 1882 (~54)
72% affinity
Shared: london
bio 72%
Henry Vaughan
17 April 1621–23 April 1695 (~74)
72% affinity
Shared: childhood
bio 72%
Matthew Arnold
24 December 1822–15 April 1888 (~66)
72% affinity
Shared: newdigate prize, social
bio 72%