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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,... "
Life, letters, and literary remains, of John Keats - Page 95
by Richard Monckton Milnes (1st baron Houghton.) - 1848
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 53

American essays - 1884 - 882 pages
...me what quality went to form a man of achievement, especially in literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously — I mean negative capability,...by a fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the penetralinm of Mystery, from being incapable of remaining content with half-knowledge. This pursued...
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Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 3

1861 - 788 pages
...me what quality went to form a man of achievement, especially in literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously — I mean negative capability;...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. . . . This, pursued through volumes, would perhaps take us no farther than this— that, with a great...
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Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 3

1861 - 520 pages
...me what quality went to form a man of achievement, especially in literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously — I mean negative capability...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. . . . This, pursued through volumes, would perhaps take us no farther than this— that, with a great...
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Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, and Other Essays

David Masson - 1874 - 338 pages
...me what quality went to form a man of achievement, especially in literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously — I mean negative capability...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason, . . . This, pursued through volumes, would perhaps take us no farther than this — that, with a great...
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The Poetical Works and Other Writings of John Keats: Now First ..., Volume 3

John Keats - Poets, English - 1883 - 426 pages
...me what quality went to form a man of achievement, especially in literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously — I mean negative capability,...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...
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The Sewanee Review, Volume 34

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...
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Studies in Interpretation: Keats-Clough-Matthew Arnold

William Henry Hudson - English literature - 1896 - 244 pages
...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, when a man,. incapable oTbeing in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and...
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The Complete Poetical Works and Letters of John Keats

John Keats - English poetry - 1899 - 530 pages
...subjects ; several things dove-tailed in my mind, and at once it struck me what quality went to form a Mau of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which...by a fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the Penetralinm of mystery, from being incapable of remaining content with half-knowledge. This pursued...
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The Complete Poetical Works of Keats

John Keats - English poetry - 1899 - 520 pages
...subjects; several things dove-tailed in my mind, and at once it struck me what quality went to form a Mail of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which...Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being \J in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. Coleridge,...
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The Complete Poetical Works and Letters of John Keats

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...
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