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 T. S. Eliot
George Eliot
22 November 1819–22 December 1880 (~61)
84% affinity
Shared: social, religious, world
bio 80% · poems 89%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
82% affinity
Shared: religious, world
bio 75% · poems 90%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
82% affinity
Shared: social, desire
bio 76% · poems 89%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
81% affinity
Shared: harvard university
bio 74% · poems 90%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
81% affinity
Shared: world
bio 75% · poems 89%
Ezra Pound
30 October 1885–1 November 1972 (~87)
81% affinity
bio 77% · poems 86%
William Butler Yeats
13 June 1865–28 January 1939 (~74)
81% affinity
Shared: desire
bio 74% · poems 90%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
81% affinity
bio 74% · poems 89%
Ralph Waldo Emerson
25 May 1803–27 April 1882 (~79)
81% affinity
Shared: social, religious, world
bio 74% · poems 89%
Howard Phelps Putnam
1894–3 July 1948 (~54)
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 75% · poems 86%
Wallace Stevens
2 October 1879–2 August 1955 (~76)
80% affinity
Shared: harvard university, george santayana
bio 72% · poems 89%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
80% affinity
Shared: london, world
bio 73% · poems 88%