It was later commented on by William Butler Yeats, who noted that " interests a critical audience today by the grotesque tragedy of "Danny Deever"". T. S. Eliot called the poem "technically (as well as in content) remarkable", holding it up as one of the best of Kipling's ballads. Both Yeats and Eliot were writing shortly after Kipling's death, in 1936 and 1941, when critical opinion of his poetry was at a low point; both, nonetheless, drew out "Danny Deever" for attention as a significant work.