In his poem “Whispers of Immortality” T.S. Eliot says that a dramatist “was much possessed by death/ And saw the skull beneath the skin” and a poet “knew the anguish of the marrow / The ague of the skeleton.” Who are the dramatist and the poet referred to by Eliot?

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In his poem “Whispers of Immortality” T.S. <br /> Eliot says that a dramatist “was much possessed by death/ And saw the skull beneath the skin” and a poet “knew the anguish of the marrow / The ague of the skeleton.” Who are the dramatist and the poet referred to by Eliot?






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