...yet been able to perceive how any thing can be known for truth by consequitive reasoning - and yet it must be - Can it be that even the greatest Philosopher...his goal without putting aside numerous objections. (ibid., i. 184-5) This is not a simple assertion that imaginative truth is superior to rational thinking....

...never yet been able to perceive how anything can be known for truth by consecutive reasoning— and yet it must be. Can it be that even the greatest philosopher...putting aside numerous objections? However it may be Oh, for a Life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts! Of silks satins quilted satins taken from grandmother's...

...outward things for its own sake. " However it may be," he writes in a letter to his friend Bailey, " oh for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts !...in the form of youth ' — a shadow of reality to come ; and this consideration has further convinced me, — for it has come as auxiliary to another...

...yet been able to perceive how any thing can be known for truth by consequitive reasoning — and yet it must be — Can it be that even the greatest Philosopher...for a Life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts! Although Keats cannot perceive how truth can be known by analysis or reason (since truth for him is...

...reasoning," and compares the imagination in its operation to Adam's dream. "However it may be," he goes on, "O for a Life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!...Vision in the form of Youth' a Shadow of reality to come" (i, 185). To interpret "sensation" as pure intuition of some transcendental reality on the basis...

...it must be — Can it be that even the greatestPhilosophereverarrivedathisgoalwithoutputtingaside 35 numerous objections — However it may be, O for a...Vision in the form of Youth' a Shadow of reality to come — and this consideration has further conv[i]nced me for it has come as auxiliary to another...

...prefigures (and almost certainly influenced) Keats's statement in his letter to Bailey, 22 November 1817: 'Can it be that even the greatest Philosopher ever...for a Life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!' iLetters, i. I 85). Many years ago HW Garrod, arguing that Keats 'was more the child of the Revolutionary...

...been able to perceive how any thing can be known for truth by consequitive [sic] reasoning - and yet it must be - can it be that even the greatest Philosopher...for a Life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts! (/V861) Nun ist es heraus: Wenn negative capability die unerläßliche Voraussetzung für Dichtertum...

...how any thing can be known for truth by consequitive reasoning - and yet it must be. Can it be that the greatest Philosopher ever arrived at his goal...may be, O for a Life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!'36 DH Lawrence (who, like Keats, loves to shock the virtuous philosopher) similarly values...

...or not. . . . The Imagination may be compared to Adam's dream — he awoke and found it truth. ... It is "a Vision in the form of Youth" a Shadow of reality to come — and this consideration . . . has come as auxiliary to another favorite Speculation of mine,...