 | 1861 - 520 pages
...a man of achievement, especially in literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously — I mean negative capability ; that is, when a man is...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. . . . This, pursued through volumes, would perhaps take us no farther than this— that, with a great... | |
 | 1861 - 788 pages
...a man of achievement, especially in literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously — I mean negative capability; that is, when a man is capable...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. . . . This, pursued through volumes, would perhaps take us no farther than this— that, with a great... | |
 | John Keats - Poets, English - 1883 - 426 pages
...a man of achievement, especially in literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously — I mean negative capability, that is, when a man is capable...reaching after fact and reason. Coleridge, for instance, would.let go by a fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the penetralium of Mystery, from being incapable... | |
 | American fiction - 1926 - 550 pages
...critic. Now, Keats loved Shakespeare most because the latter possessed, in his opinion, the greatest "negative capability, that is, when a man is capable...doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason,"4 — the very characteristic about Shakespeare that Bernard Shaw deplores. But this quality... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - English literature - 1896 - 244 pages
...— I mean negative capability*, that is, when a man,. incapable oTbeing in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. Coleridge, for instance, would let go t>ya fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the penetralium of mystery, from being incapable of remaining... | |
 | John Keats, Horace Elisha Scudder - History - 1899 - 522 pages
...especially in Literature, and which Shakepeare possessed so enormously — I mean Negative Capabilityj_tha.t is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties,...doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and rea1опГ_ Coleridge, for instance, would let go by a fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the... | |
 | John Keats - English poetry - 1899 - 522 pages
...a Mail of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakspeare possessed so enormously — I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being \J in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. Coleridge,... | |
 | Comparative linguistics - 1901 - 552 pages
...form a man of achievement especially in literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously. I mean negative capability, that is, when a man is capable...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason . . . with a great Poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or ratlier obliterates... | |
 | Sibylla Geest - 1903 - 80 pages
...a man ofachievement, espccially in literature, and which Shafospeare possessed so enormously — I mean negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubfs, withont amj irritable reaching after fact und reasou. Coleridge, for insta,,cc, would Ict go... | |
 | German literature - 1908 - 550 pages
...a man of achievement, espcciaUy in literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously — J mean negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in unccrtainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching öfter fact und reason. Coleridge,... | |
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Dilke on various subjects; several things dove-tailed in my mind, and at once it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously — I mean Negative Capability, that is,... 
