Dissociation of sensibility

Dissociation of sensibility is a literary term first used by T. S. Eliot in his essay "The Metaphysical Poets." It refers to a way that, in Eliot's judgment, intellectual thought was separated from the experience of feeling in poetry during the course of the seventeenth century.

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