Read it through once

The parallel between Donne and Juvenal is exact. They are both moralists, and Donne’s moralising is of the same kind as Juvenal’s. If we can feel that Donne is like Juvenal, we recognise at once what that kind of moralising implies, and is not to be confused with. It is essentially the moralising which arises from the intellectual conscience; and that is the moralising, not of the general reader, but of the student or the scholar, who approaches life from the point of view of knowledge. Donne’s moralising is therefore not like Dryden’s; and the distinction between them is not accidental but one which touches the very soil of the two organisations. Dryden is popular, Donne is not; Dryden speaks the language of common sense and of practical experience, whilst Donne speaks the language of a temperamental intellectual conscience.