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dissociation of sensibility
dissociation of sensibility, a phrase coined by T. S. Eliot in his essay ‘The Metaphysical Poets’ (1921) to describe a separation of thought from feeling in English poetry since the mid-17th cent. Whereas Donne and the other ‘metaphysical’ poets were capable of a ‘direct sensuous apprehension of thought’, Eliot argued, Milton, Dryden, and their successors, especially the Victorian poets, suffered, from a general malaise of ‘the mind of England’ in which thought and feeling were cultivated separately. The argument was never supported in convincing detail, and the causes of the supposed dissociation—religious, scientific, or political—never clearly identified; but Eliot's conception of English poetic history as a process of psychic and linguistic disintegration was endorsed by Pound, Leavis, and the American New Critics, who sometimes referred to the phrase.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "dissociation of sensibility." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "dissociation of sensibility." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-dissociationofsensibility.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "dissociation of sensibility." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-dissociationofsensibility.html |
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dissociation of sensibility
dissociation of sensibility T. S. Eliot's term for a separation of thought from feeling which he held to be first manifested in poetry of the later seventeenth century.
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ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "dissociation of sensibility." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "dissociation of sensibility." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-dissociationofsensibility.html ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "dissociation of sensibility." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-dissociationofsensibility.html |
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