“Donne’s monarchy of wit was not a trick of fashion but one of the greatest achievements of poetic intelligence.” Discuss. (P.U. 2005)

The term “wit” is difficult to define, for it has various aspects and disparate manifestations in different writers. However, Donne has been called a “wit” by several critics—Coleridge, Pope and Dr. Johnson to name only a few. Dr. Johnson describes the wit of Donne as being a kind of discordia concors, or a combination of dissimilar images, or a discovery of occult resemblances in things