Negative capability
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title:
Negative capability
text:
"Negative capability" is the capacity of artists to pursue ideals of beauty, perfection and sublimity even when it leads them into intellectual confusion and uncertainty, as opposed to a preference for philosophical certainty over artistic beauty. The term, first used by John Keats in 1817, has been subsequently used by poets, philosophers and literary theorists to describe the ability to perceive and recognize truths beyond the reach of what Keats called "consecutive reasoning".
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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Poetic concept
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_capability
date created:
2003-05-30T10:43:17Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T07:28:57Z
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