In the seventeenth century a dissociation of sensibility set in, from which we have never recovered; and this dissociation, as is natural, was aggravated by the influence of the two most powerful poets of the century, Milton and Dryden.


The Metaphysical Poets (1921)


In the seventeenth century a dissociation of sensibility set in, from which we have never recovered; and this dissociation, as is natural, was...

In the seventeenth century a dissociation of sensibility set in, from which we have never recovered; and this dissociation, as is natural, was...

In the seventeenth century a dissociation of sensibility set in, from which we have never recovered; and this dissociation, as is natural, was...

In the seventeenth century a dissociation of sensibility set in, from which we have never recovered; and this dissociation, as is natural, was...