A Comparative Analysis of T.S. Eliot and John Donne

This paper compares and 
contrasts the metaphysical imagery used in 
Donne's and Eliot's poetry. Both Dr. 
Johnson and Dryden criticized Donne for 
the unique imagery and symbolism that he 
used in his writing. W.B. Yeats, Rupert 
Brooke, W.H. Auden, and T.S. Eliot were 
all captivated by John Donne's poetry in 
their own unique ways. Eliot recognized in 
him both the coming together of mind and 
emotion as well as the consolidation of 
sensibility. In addition, modern poets like 
T. S. Eliot and G. M. Hopkins have 
suggested in their own works of poetry that 
the symbolism in Donne's poetry is vitally 
prophetic for the development of the 
expression of modern poetry