Keats's Negative Capability: New Origins and Afterlives

by Michael Theune and Brian Rejack

In late December 1817, when attempting to name "what quality went to form a Man of Achievement especially in Literature," John Keats coined the term "negative capability," which he glossed as "being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason." Since then negative capability has continued to shape assessments of and responses to Keats's work, while also surfacing in other contexts ranging from contemporary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786941813
• ISBN13: 9781786941817
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"