Who said that Shakespeare was a poet rather than a dramatist ? [British Drama (2018-19) Assignment 1]

T.S. Eliot is known to have said that Shakespeare was a poet rather than a dramatist. In his critical essay "Hamlet and his Problems," Eliot argued that Shakespeare's plays are more successful as poetry than as drama, and that Shakespeare's focus was primarily on exploring the human condition through language, rather than on constructing a realistic plot or characterization. Eliot believed that Shakespeare's work represented the pinnacle of poetic achievement, and that his influence on English literature was unparalleled.