...dispute, but a disquisition, with Dilke upon various subjects ; several things dovetailed in my mind, and at once it struck me what quality went to form a man...of achievement, especially in literature, and which Shakspeare possessed so enormously — I mean negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of...

...dispute, but a disquisition, with Dilke upon various subjects ; several things dove-tailed in my mind, and at once it struck me what quality went to form a man...of achievement, especially in literature, and which Shakspeare possessed so enormously — I mean negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of...

...dispute, but a disquisition, with Dilke upon various subjects. Several things dovetailed in my mind, and at once it struck me what quality went to form a man...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. . . . This, pursued through volumes, would perhaps take us no farther than this— that, with a great...

...dispute, but a disquisition, with Dilke upon various subjects. Several things dovetailed in my mind, and at once it struck me what quality went to form a man...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. . . . This, pursued through volumes, would perhaps take us no farther than this— that, with a great...

...dispute, but a disquisition, with Dilke upon various subjects ; several things dove-tailed in my mind, and at once it struck me what quality went to form a man...reaching after fact and reason. Coleridge, for instance, would.let go by a fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the penetralium of Mystery, from being incapable...

...dispute, but a disquisition, with Dilke upon various subjects ; several things dove-tailed in my mind, and at once it struck me what quality went to form a man...; achievement, especially in literature, and which Shake- j speare possessed so enormously — I 'mean negative capability, that is, when a man is capable...

...dispute, but a disquisition, with Dilke upon various subjects ; several things dove-tailed in my mind, and at once it struck me what quality went to form a Man...of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakspeare possessed so enormously — I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of...

...dispute, but a disquisition, with Dilke upon various subjects ; several things dove-tailed in my mind, and at once it struck me what quality went to form a Man...of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakspeare possessed so enormously — I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of...

...critic. Now, Keats loved Shakespeare most because the latter possessed, in his opinion, the greatest "negative capability, that is, when a man is capable...doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason,"4 — the very characteristic about Shakespeare that Bernard Shaw deplores. But this quality...

...dispute, but a disquisition, with Dilke upon various subjects ; several things dove-tailed in my mind, and at once it struck me what quality went to form a man...Shakespeare possessed so enormously — I mean Negative Capa- ^ bility, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncer- •• . tainties, mysteries, doubts,...