...awareness is described in The Subtle Knife as embodying Keats's "negative capability," when a person is "Capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries,...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason" (88) — a state, in fact, opposed to the conscious struggle of scholarship. The unique nature of her...

...Literature and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously — I mean Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries,...doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.1 Here Keats has certainly succeeded both in perceiving and in expressing something of fundamental...

...of conceptualization. The poetic mind is passive, refusing both limitation and certainty. It must be "capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts,...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason." 17 For Walter Jackson Bate "the significant word ... is 'irritable.' We should also stress 'capable'...

...characteristic Keats said he found most amply demonstrated in Shakespeare. We see that attribute, Keats wrote, "when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason." Shakespeare in Keats's view was a master of masterlessness:...

...a Skylark') » (John Keats, 1795-1821) £ ' (the Elgin Marbles) (Benjamin Haydon) (Fanny Brawne) A It struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement,...This pursued through volumes would perhaps take us no further than this, that with a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration,...

...Sunday in 1817, the poet John Keats wrote to his brothers that he had been talking with friends about "what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. Coleridge, for instance, would let go by a fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the Penetralium...

...a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously — / mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. . Sir lsaac Newton was greatly influenced by Hermeticism. Pullman's fictional Khunrath investigated...

...evidenced by her frequent invocation of Keats s negative capability. Indeed, Keats 's insistence on "Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable...doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason,"37 can well be made to harmonize with postmodern skepticism. But there is more to West's application...

...of 1 8 1 8 and referring to Shakespeare after being inspired by Kean's performance as Richard III) 'when a man is capable of being in uncertainties,...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason'. A phrase now used to describe the poetic ability to efface self and take on the qualities being described....

...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...