Question

Who are the two poets whom Eliot considers responsible for the Dissociation and
Sensibility and why?​

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

Answer:

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

Dissociation of sensibility, phrase used by T.S. Eliot in the essay “The Metaphysical Poets” (1921) to explain the change that occurred in English poetry after the heyday of the Metaphysical poets.