...scene, not to endeavour to change it. He is endowed with what Keats calls "negative capability"; he is "capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries,...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason . . . with a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration". Virginia Woolf is...

...not comfortable for Mansfield either—but she remained true to her convictions. The challenge to be "capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts,...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason" was taken righr to the threshold of death. She wrote to John Middle ton Marry during those awful last...

...substitute — ersatz, stand-in for we knew not otherwise how to do. Then in Keats' letters I found: I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertaintys, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason — Coleridge,...

...a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously — I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason." A few lines later he told his brother, "Shelley's poem is out, and there are words about its being...

...a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously — I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. The other consideration of the nature of language is less philosophical: What is required for its intelligibility?...

...pays tribute to what he calls Shakespeare's "Negative Capability," and goes on to explain the term: "that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties,...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason." This has long been accepted as a shrewd account of the spirit in which Shakespeare wrote, and as good...

...Netta takes on John Keats's "Negative Capability." which, as he explained in a letter to his brother, is "when a man is capable of being in uncertainties,...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.' Had Netta reached after "fact and reason" alone, she would have sent Jack packing. Instead, she now...

...what Bion (1962), following Keats, terms negative capability. For Keats negative capability exists "when a man is capable of being in uncertainties,...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason" (in Bion 1962). Shunryu Suzuki, a modern Zen teacher, calls this beginner's mind. "If your mind is...

...Spirituality ultimately produces a state of mind that the poet John Keats called 'negative capability': when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries,...doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.2 This is surely a condition to aspire to in our torn and broken world, especially since the...

...letter that he wrote to his brothers, John Keats spoke of 'negative capability', describing it as when 'man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries,...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason'. The nimbleness of Dickinson's faith is evidence of an extraordinary negative capability, an enormous...