...struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakspeare possessed so enormously — I mean Negative Capability,...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. Coleridge, for instance, would let go by a fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the Penetralium...

...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...

...going to Reynolds on Wednesday. Brown and Dilke walked with me and back to the Christmas pantomine. I had not a dispute, but a disquisition, with Dilke...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. Coleridge, for instance, would let go by a fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the Penetralium...

...Thomas, he refers to a discussion which he had then lately had with his friend Dilke, and continues : "At once it struck me what quality went to form a...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. Coleridge, for instance, would let go by a fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the penetralium...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...can never be found out, the secret of their making. In a profound passage on Shakespeare he notes how 'several things dovetailed in my mind, and at once...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. Coleridge, for instance, would let go a fine isolated verisimilitude, caught from the Penetralium of...