{"product_id":"negative-capability-the-intuitive-approach-in-keats-paperback","title":"Negative Capability: The Intuitive Approach in Keats - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWalter Jackson Bate\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMaura del Serra\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1939, Walter Jackson Bate's seminal study of John Keats's \"negative capability\" remains the definitive account of one of the central ideas of Romantic poetics. At once genealogical and analytical, Bate traces the concept across a wide intellectual field--linking it to William Hazlitt's notion of \"gusto,\" to William Shakespeare's dramatic impersonality, and forward to Henri Bergson's distinction between intellect and intuition. In Bate's formulation, negative capability emerges as a discipline of disinterestedness and imaginative sympathy: the capacity to relinquish the self and enter fully into the reality of another. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAgainst the egotism and epistemic certainties of his age, Keats proposed instead a poetics grounded in openness--to \"uncertainties, mysteries, doubts.\" Bate's study restores the full force of that challenge, revealing negative capability not as a passing remark but as a rigorous and enduring principle of artistic creation. This edition returns a foundational work to print, with a new introduction by the Italian poet and critic Maura Del Serra--and renews the truth of T. S. Eliot's judgment: that there is scarcely a statement Keats made about poetry that has not proved true.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalter Jackson Bate (1918-1999) was one of the most influential literary critics of the twentieth century. His book \u003ci\u003eJohn Keats\u003c\/i\u003e (1963) won the Pulitzer Prize. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMaura Del Serra (Pistoia 1948) is a poet, playwright, translator, and literary critic, formerly a comparative scholar at the University of Florence. She has published collections of poems, plays, essays, and critical works on multiple authors as well as several translations.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.25 x 7.72 x 4.92 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 28, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53849898221875,"sku":"9781971559384","price":39.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/smHKa-ie7H9781971559384.webp?v=1786587504","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/negative-capability-the-intuitive-approach-in-keats-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}