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Negative Capability: On the Intuitive Approach in Keats Revised Edition
Contributor(s): Bate, Walter Jackson (Author), Del Serra, Maura (Author), Siracusa, Dominic (Translator)

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 ISBN: 098369723X     ISBN-13: 9780983697237
Publisher: Contra Mundum Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Essays
- Literary Criticism | Poetry
- Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 821.7
LCCN: 2012941553
Physical Information: 0.27" H x 5" W x 8" L (0.29 lbs) 128 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
Features: Bibliography
 
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Walter Jackson Bate's canonical 1939 study of Keats's concept of negative capability is a genealogical treatise that unearths the socio-political, aesthetic, and intellectual composition of Keats's most famous poetic idea. He discloses its relation to Hazlitt's idea of "gusto" and to Shakespearean notions of impersonality and intensity while also demonstrating how negative capability presages Bergson's conceptual interpretation of intellect and intuition. Bate reveals how the key elements of Keats's poetic concept are disinterestedness, sympathy, impersonality, and dramatic poetry, defining negative capability as "the ability to negate or lose one's identity in something larger than oneself - a sympathetic openness to the concrete reality without, an imaginative identification, a relishing and understanding of it." With 'negative capability, ' Keats railed against the rampant egotism of his epoch and challenged the certainty of its claims to knowledge. While embracing reality, Keats urged the necessity of abiding in uncertainties, mysteries, and doubts. This new edition brings back into print Bate's indispensable work and features an introduction by the distinguished Italian poet, playwright, and literary critic Maura Del Serra. With its republication, Eliot's proclamation on Keats is given new force: that "there is hardly one statement of Keats about poetry which ... will not be found to be true..."
 
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