Keats'S Negative Capability

The first essay collection devoted solely to Keats's famous and influential concept Offers extended attention to some of negative capability's understudied origins, including the Christmas pantomime, the transcription of Keats's letter, its roots in the criticism of William Hazlitt, and its connections to Keats's medical training Pays attention to some of negative capability's significant afterlives, including Julio Cortazar's Imagen de John Keats, Zen Buddhism, Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, the poetry and poetics of Elizabeth Bishop and Jorie Graham Essays from multiple disciplinary and historical perspectives: the history of psychoanalysis, Bakhtinian dialogism, contemporary pop culture, contemporary American poetry, and the philosophy of Jean-Luc Marion