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 Anne Bradstreet
Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830–15 May 1886 (~56)
82% affinity
Shared: religious, massachusetts
bio 77% · poems 87%
Charlotte Smith
4 May 1749–28 October 1806 (~57)
80% affinity
Shared: woman
bio 77% · poems 85%
Anne Brontë
17 January 1820–28 May 1849 (~29)
80% affinity
Shared: religious, life
bio 73% · poems 89%
Anna Lætitia Barbauld
20 June 1743–9 March 1825 (~82)
80% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 75% · poems 86%
Elizabeth Prentiss
26 October 1818–13 August 1878 (~60)
80% affinity
Shared: religious, women
bio 76% · poems 84%
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
25 September 1793–16 May 1835 (~42)
79% affinity
Shared: woman, culture
bio 74% · poems 86%
Charlotte Brontë
21 April 1816–31 March 1855 (~39)
79% affinity
Shared: women, life, death
bio 73% · poems 88%
Emily Brontë
30 July 1818–19 December 1848 (~30)
79% affinity
Shared: domestic, life, death
bio 70% · poems 89%
Charlotte Richardson
5 March 1775–26 September 1825 (~50)
79% affinity
Shared: religious, woman
bio 76% · poems 81%
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
5 November 1850–30 October 1919 (~69)
78% affinity
Shared: woman, women
bio 73% · poems 85%
Edna St. Vincent Millay
22 February 1892–19 October 1950 (~58)
78% affinity
Shared: woman
bio 73% · poems 84%
Edith M. Thomas
12 August 1854–13 September 1925 (~71)
78% affinity
Shared: culture, women
bio 75% · poems 82%