...Warner Berthoff spoke of the Melvillean narrator's "'negative capability'" — "that is [Keats's words], when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries,...doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason."4' Unlike Ahab, Ishmael can live and thrive with indetermimacy as it invites the mind to speculation...

...Untertan, von Geist und Materie, von Kultur und Natur 24"I mean negative capability, that is, when man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries,...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason". John Keats: Brief an George u. Tom Keats, 21.12.1817. In: Romanticism. An Anthologv. Hg. v. Duncan...

...form Men of Achievement especially in Literature and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously—/ mean "Negative Capability," that is when a man is...being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after facts and reason. [From a letter to his brothers, Tom and George. Keats,...

...George and Thomas Keats, Keats praises Shakespeare for his 'negative capability', that state 'when man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries,...doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason'.7 This negative capability is required in modern criticism as the condition of our literary...

...within. As William Vaughan has observed, he seems to embody the poet Keats's 'negative capability', 'when man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries,...doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason'.4 Palmer, like other Romantic artists, was driven by a sense of his vocation and a need to...

...hovered over what is best. I dwelled in more than one place at once. Karl Elder Poet's Statement ". . . capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts,...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason," Keats wrote to his brothers on a Sunday in 1817. Despite thoughts in the letter about the "Man of Achievement,"...

...to explain this crucial quality of the therapeutic attitude. The therapist, like the poet, should be "capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts,...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason."" It is ironic that Bion, of all possible theorists, wrote so much toward the end of his life about therapy...

...letter from December 1817. Keats wrote of the capacity that "Shakespeare possessed so enormously — I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason." Negative capability is often thought to be a desirable quality in a poet, since it implies a judicious...

...Plutarch 92 Learn to tolerate ambiguity Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Adams 'Negative Capability, that is when a man is capable...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.' These words of the poet John Keats point to an important attribute. It was, he felt, the supreme gift...

...stay "behind the scenes" of her novel calls to mind Keats's concept of "negative capability," where "a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries,...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason" (1817 letter to his brothers). The concept is in direct contradiction to Henry Fielding's notoriously...