The Author and the Reader in the Seventeenth-Century Texts of Donne and Milton

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It is my contention that the tension between authority and individuality is the prevailing and dominating position of the seventeenth-century literary mind. The men, in the seventeenth century following the preceding one as the age of the birth and development of modern self, go through gradually the separation of the social and the self. It has been at times described directly or indirectly as the "dissociation of sensibility" and the doubt or crisis of representation. The development of modernity is the process of being away from the communal realm—the communal and traditional constraints in property [subject choice, subject-matters and other materials] —and also the process of claiming individual, self-fashioned literary production. Consequently, this process calls into question the identification between the social and the self in the literary representativity and doubts the representativity itself.
In fact, the literary current, from Eliot`s assessments of Donne and Milton in his On Poetry and Poets and Selected Essays to Cleanth Brooks` concept of "well-wrought urn," has focused on the autonomous lives of text itself against the nineteenth-century literal, historical criticism which goes beyond the text. But even Eliot contradicts himself in his views; he says, "there is a direct sensuous apprehension of thought"—that is unified sensibility—in Donne, and that the dissociation of sensibility "was aggravated by the influence of the two most powerful poets of the [seventeenth] century, Milton and Dryden," but later in his 1931 essay, "Donne in Our Time," he suggests that "in Donne there is manifest fissure between thought and sensibility."

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