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.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press Illustration(s): 11 Illustrations, black and white Number of pages: 320 Collection: Romantic Reconfigurations: Studies in Literature and Culture 1780-1850 Publication date: 2021 Dimensions: 153 x 234 x 20 Cover type: Paperback / softback Editor(s): Michael Theune.