Both Shakespeare and Donne explore the strength of love against the ineluctable forces of time and mutability in their individual ways, and seem to reach the conclusion that the tyranny of time can yet be mitigated, even overcome by the death-defying intransigence of love. Shakespeare’s and Donne’s vision of love in their works is stamped with the mark of their genius, especially in their departure from the conventional treatment and in their own ...
