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Negative Capability | Negative Capability

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Sep.07.2009
Why does Eleanor Rigby pick up the rice in a church where a wedding has been?
Negative capability.
stephen-evans's picture
Nov.07.2008
What Would Shakespeare Do?
In a letter to his brothers, Keats expressed admiration for what he called Negative Capabilty: "I had not a dispute but a disquisition with Dilke, on various subjects; several things dovetailed in my mind, & at once it struck me, what quality went to form a Man of Achievement especially...