JOHN KEATS: What is Negative Capability? Explanation, Analysis & Example from John Keats’ poem Lamia @DrOctaviaCox

Dr Octavia Cox | JOHN KEATS: What is Negative Capability? Explanation, Analysis & Example from John Keats’ poem Lamia @DrOctaviaCox | Uploaded January 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
What is “Negative Capability”? Explanation, analysis, & summary of John Keats’ wonderful phrase “Negative Capability”, including an example from Keats’ poem ‘Lamia’ (1820), which describes a rainbow.

John Keats considered negative capability to be essential to his poetic style, & fundamental to his conception of knowledge and engagement with the world. But what does “negative capability” mean? And how does it materialise in Keats’s poetry? In the lecture, I explain what John Keats meant by the term “Negative Capability” (which appeared in a letter from John Keats to his brothers, George and Tom Keats, c.27 December 1817), and analyse it in relation to Keats’ poem Lamia, in which Keats describes the mysterious beauty of rainbows.

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