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 Matthew Arnold
Arthur Hugh Clough
1 January 1819–13 November 1861 (~42)
83% affinity
Shared: thomas arnold
bio 77% · poems 91%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
83% affinity
Shared: victorian age
bio 78% · poems 90%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
81% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 74% · poems 89%
G. K. Chesterton
29 May 1874–14 June 1936 (~62)
80% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 75% · poems 87%
Francis Hastings Doyle
21 August 1810–8 June 1888 (~78)
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 75% · poems 87%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 89%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
80% affinity
Shared: oxford
bio 73% · poems 89%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
80% affinity
bio 75% · poems 87%
Alfred Austin
30 May 1835–2 June 1913 (~78)
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 89%
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
80% affinity
Shared: culture
bio 72% · poems 89%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
80% affinity
Shared: oxford
bio 73% · poems 88%
Walter Savage Landor
30 January 1775–17 September 1864 (~89)
80% affinity
Shared: social, oxford
bio 73% · poems 88%