 Dilke upon 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...  The Letters of John Keats - Page 57by John Keats - 1895 - 522 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1861 - 520 pages
...passive. If, after that, he insensibly draws you towards him, then you have no power to break the link." " I had, not a dispute, but a disquisition, with Dilke...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
...passive. If, after that, he insensibly draws you towards him, then you have no power to break the link." "I had, not a dispute, but a disquisition, with Dilke...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. . . . This, pursued through volumes, would perhaps take us no farther than this— that, with a great... | |
 | David Masson - 1874 - 338 pages
...passive. If, after that, he insensibly draws you towards him, then you have no power to break the link." " I had, not a dispute, but a disquisition, with Dilke...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
...brothers, with Hill and Kingston, and one Du Bois. They only served to convince me how superior humour is to wit, in respect to enjoyment. These men say...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... | |
 | 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 - 520 pages
...me what quality went to form 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
...with Dilke upon various subjects; several things dove-tailed in my mind, and at once it struck nie what quality went to form a man of achievement especially...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
...struck me whaf quality went to form a man ofachievement, espccially in literature, and which Shafospeare possessed so enormously — I mean negative Capability,...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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