...in Literature & which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries,...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. (NE2: 889) Here is another quotation about composition by Keats: 'If it does not come as easily as...

...negatively. As described by John Keats, true Negative Capability is exampled by "a Man of Achievement . . . capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts,...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason." 1n It entails belief that the imagination brings one to a truth more real than conventional reasoning...

...non-Euclidean geometry, proposed by John Keats in 1817 as negative capability, that is, when humankind is capable "of being in uncertainties, mysteries,...doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason"20 and in a different context by Werner Heisenberg's work on quantum physics in the 19205 as...

...theory. As a solution, Hassan argues for reclaiming Keats's theory of "Negative Capability" that one "is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries,...doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason."56 As Appiah's and Hassan's arguments suggest, if all legitimate knowledge, belief, and meaning...

...that human lives possessed it. Being Catholic gives me what Keats called "negative capability"; I am "capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts,...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason." My personal identity does not require that I have to have made up my mind about everything. That being...

...expressing his admiration for Shakespeare, that "he possessed so enormously, a 'negative capability,' capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact and reason."3 Even as we enter the complex territory of judgment, full of curiosity but without a reliable...

...the need to develop the skill of learning to live with uncertainty. It is achieved, in Keats's words, "when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without reaching after fact and reason." This is an idea not only temperamentally unsuited to the scientific...

...need to cultivate what John Keats, in a letter to his brothers in 1817, called Negative Capability: "...when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason. " Keats knew what he was talking about. He had one of the...

...reader of the value of unknowing. In a letter to his brothers dated December 21, 1817, Keats wrote: "I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason" (Rollins 1958, p. 102). This seems to be the antithesis of the categorising, defining spirit of logos....

...a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously . . . that is when a man is capable of being in uncertainties,...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason" (Forman 1952, 71). Ten months later, on October 27, 1818, returning to Shakespeare as an exemplar of...