Keats's Negative Capability

Few critical terms coined by poets are more famous than “negative capability.” Though Keats uses the mysterious term only once, a consensus about its meaning has taken shape over the last two centuries. Keats’s Negative Capability: New Origins and Afterlives offers alternative ways to approach and understand Keats’s seductive term.

La sfarsitul lunii decembrie 1817, cand a incercat sa numeasca „ce calitate a dus la formarea unui om de realizare in special in literatura”, John Keats a inventat termenul „capacitate negativa”, pe care l-a glosat ca „fiind in incertitudini, mistere, indoieli, fara nici un fel de iritabil. ajungand dupa fapt si ratiune. ” De atunci, capacitatea negativa a continuat sa modeleze evaluarile si raspunsurile la lucrarea lui Keats, aparand in acelasi timp si in alte contexte, de la poezia contemporana la punk rock.