By Sunny Awhefeada Poetry like religious books is hugely consolatory. Adherents of moralistic criticism find a common ground between religion and literature as both domains continue to illuminate, comfort and navigate humanity in its unending odyssey of disillusionment and pains. The Anglo-American poet and critic, Thomas Stearns Elliot, made quite a reputation in his lifelong career as a writer who fused the moralizing essence of religion with the didactic end of literature. Three centuries before him, the English metaphysical poet, John Donne, had thematized the ennobling and redemptive essence…
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