| Evidence: | '[included in diary entry] [italics] Keats [end italics] (Letter to Geo and Thos Keats Dec 28 1817)
"negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact and reason".
this quality goes to make "a man of achievement, especially in literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously".
I do not think I have any 'creative' genius. What I have, if I have anything, is the capacity to [italics] recgnise [end italics] things.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 10 Aug 1934 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Shaldon county: Devon |
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| Reader: | Antonia White |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 31 Mar 1899 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | writer |
| Religion: | Catholic by birth |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | christened Eirene Botting |
| Author: | John Keats |
| Title: | [Letters] |
| Genre: | Letters |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 19700 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Antonia White | |
| Editor: | Susan Chitty | |
| Title: | Antonia White. Diaries 1926-1957 | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1991 | |
| Vol: | I | |
| Page: | 31 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Antonia White, Susan Chitty (ed.), Antonia White. Diaries 1926-1957 (London, 1991), I, p. 31, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19700, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
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