In the series of critical writings, T.S. Eliot wrote two articles on Milton, "Milton I" and "Milton II". In the first, Eliot criticizes Milton for creating artificial, unimaginative, conventional, vague poetry. Milton is assailed for not contributing to the development of English language and literature. Eliot considers Milton less poetic as Milton prioritized the aural imagery as against the visual and tactile, which are called the essential qualities of the great tradition of English poetry. Milton is accused of disrupting and dislocating meaning in his poetry as he indulges in rhetoric. Excess of' music leads to disjunction in the sound and sense, which ultimately results in the discontinuity of the organic unity between the signifier and the referent. Shakespeare, Dante and others are called the poets of the great tradition as they achieved the perfect unity between form and meaning. Eliot reverses his stance in "Milton II" and finds Milton a great, unique poet. To readers' bafflement, Eliot canonizes Milton, in "Milton II" for excelling in those very poetic qualities for the lack of which he was condemned in "Milton I"