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 Louis MacNeice
Archibald MacLeish
7 May 1892–20 April 1982 (~90)
78% affinity
bio 78%
William Butler Yeats
13 June 1865–28 January 1939 (~74)
76% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 76%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
76% affinity
bio 76%
Jeremiah Joseph Callanan
1795–19 September 1839 (~44)
76% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 76%
John Masefield
1 June 1878–12 May 1967 (~89)
75% affinity
bio 75%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
75% affinity
bio 75%
Lionel Johnson
15 March 1867–4 October 1902 (~35)
74% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 74%
Thomas MacDonagh
1 February 1878–3 May 1916 (~38)
74% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 74%
Philip Arthur Larkin
9 August 1922–2 December 1985 (~63)
74% affinity
bio 74%
Lascelles Abercrombie
9 January 1881–27 October 1938 (~57)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Francis William Bourdillon
22 March 1852–13 January 1921 (~69)
73% affinity
Shared: oxford
bio 73%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
73% affinity
Shared: oxford
bio 73%