单词 | dissociation of sensibility |
释义 | > as lemmasdissociation of sensibility dissociation of sensibility n. T. S. Eliot's term for: a separation of thought from feeling in English poetry, which he held to be first manifested in poetry of the later seventeenth century. ΚΠ 1921 T. S. Eliot Metaphysical Poets in Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Oct. 669/4 The poets of the seventeenth century..possessed a mechanism of sensibility which could devour any kind of experience... In the seventeenth century a dissociation of sensibility set in, from which we have never recovered. 1930 E. M. W. Tillyard Milton 356 Some sort of dissociation of sensibility in Milton, not necessarily undesirable, has to be admitted. 1957 F. Kermode Romantic Image viii. 143 The theory of the dissociation of sensibility is, in fact, the most successful version of a Symbolist attempt to explain why the modern world resists works of art that testify to the poet's special, anti-intellectual way of knowing truth. 2011 W. Pietrzak Myth, Lang. & Trad. iii. i. 240 This is the dissociation of sensibility which only the poet can heal. < as lemmas |
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