How is creativity assessed across multiple products? What parameters influence the audience's overall impression of an artist's total body of creative work? This study examines this question in the domain of poetry, as poetry “gatekeepers” rated a series of five poems (all written by the same poet). The central question was what factors impacted the overall ratings of these poems; specifically, the following components were evaluated: average performance (i.e., typical work), maximum performance (i.e., best work), minimum performance (i.e., worst work), variability of performance (i.e., consistency), first performance, and last performance. The average, best, worst, and last poem in each set positively predicted the overall quality of the set. Variability (e.g., the standard deviation) did not make a significant prediction, suggesting that a body of artistic work may not be judged by the consistency of the set. These results suggest an overall stronger effect for ratings of individual items than for consistency when judging a set of creative works. Implications for aesthetic judgment are discussed.