These three articles discuss the senses, sentiment and sensibility in eighteenth-century literature and philosophy. Starting with the moral philosophy of Francis Hutcheson, they take us to the poetry of Edward Young at the end of the century, throwing new light on a key conceptual nexus. While Hutcheson belongs to the tradition of philosophical nativism, John Cleland is an empiricist who seems to parody the experimental method through the irrepressible erotic urges of his protagonist. As for...