Some, including H. W. Garrod, equate this theory with Wordsworth's "wise passiveness," but Jacob Widor points out how its formulator believed Coleridg
Some, including H. W. Garrod, equate this theory with Wordsworth's "wise passiveness," but Jacob Widor points out how its formulator believed Coleridge to be incapable of this theoretic state and would be "incapable of remaining content with half-knowledge." The man who posited this theory a year later compared "human life to a large Mansion of Many Apartments." After covering Kean's return to acting, its definition follows from a "disquisition" between its formulator and Charles Wentworth (*) Dilke; in that work, this "went on to form a Man of Achievement." This is the state of being able to be "in uncertainties/Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason." For 10 points, name this theoretical state defined in a letter to the brothers of its formulator, the poet of Ode to a Nightingale, John Keats.
Some, including H. W. Garrod, equate this theory with Wordsworth's "wise passiveness," but Jacob Widor points out how its formulator believed Coleridge to be incapable of this theoretic state and would be "incapable of remaining content with half-knowledge."
{Negative Capability}