...struck me what quality went to form a man of achievement, especially in literature, and which Shakspeare possessed so enormously — I mean negative capability,...and reason. Coleridge, for instance, would let go by a fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the penetralium of Mystery, from being incapable of remaining...

...the Christmas pantomime. I had not a dispute, but a disquisition, with Dilke upon various subjects ; several things dove-tailed in my mind, and at once...of achievement, especially in literature, and which Shakspeare possessed so enormously — I mean negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of...

...the Christmas pantomime. I had not a dispute, but a disquisition, with Dilke upon various subjects; several things dovetailed in my mind, and at once...of achievement, especially in literature, and which Shakspeare possessed so enormously—I mean negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of...

...following extracts are from various parts of his letters, from the earliest ones on to the later : — " At once it struck me what quality went to form a man...and reason. Coleridge, for instance, would let go by a fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the penetralinm of Mystery, from being incapable of remaining...

...power to break the link." "I had, not a dispute, but a disquisition, with Dilke upon various subjects. Several things dovetailed in my mind, and at once...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. . . . This, pursued through volumes, would perhaps take us no farther than this— that, with a great...

...power to break the link." " I had, not a dispute, but a disquisition, with Dilke upon various subjects. Several things dovetailed in my mind, and at once...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. . . . This, pursued through volumes, would perhaps take us no farther than this— that, with a great...

...the Christmas pantomime. I had not a dispute, but a disquisition, with Dilke upon various subjects ; several things dove-tailed in my mind, and at once...and reason. Coleridge, for instance, would let go by a fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the penetralium of Mystery, from being incapable of remaining...

...power to break the link." " I had, not a dispute, but a disquisition, with Dilke upon various subjects. Several things dovetailed in my mind, and at once...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason, . . . This, pursued through volumes, would perhaps take us no farther than this — that, with a great...

...the Christmas pantomine. I had not a dispute, but a disquisition, with Dilke upon various subjects ; several things dove-tailed in my mind, and at once...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...

...the Christmas pantomine. I had not a dispute, but a disquisition, with Dilke upon various subjects ; several things dove-tailed in my mind, and at once...; achievement, especially in literature, and which Shake- j speare possessed so enormously — I 'mean negative capability, that is, when a man is capable...