Dissociation of sensibility is a literary term first used by T. S. Eliot in his essay “The Metaphysical Poets” It refers to the way in which intellectual thought was separated from the experience of feeling in seventeenth century poetry.
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“We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)