Or it may be both simultaneously, hovering in Keatsian negative capability. From Wordnik.com. [The Timeless in Its Time: Engaging Students in a Close-reading and Discussion of the Historical Contexts of 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'] Reference
The melancholy tremor of "Today" is a Keatsian strain updated to San Francisco. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Slick The Biography]
So there you just have the Keatsian equivalent of, you know, beauty is truth, truth beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Billy Collins: A Poet's Affection For Emily Dickinson] Reference
For a sketch of the missing Keatsian piece, see Kaufman, "Negatively Capable Dialectics." close window. From Wordnik.com. [Kaufman, Notes- _Reading Shelley's Interventionist Poetry, 1819-1820_ - Romantic Circles Praxis Series] Reference
The emphasis on jewels in the poem's first verse paragraph is also Keatsian, this time recalling the exotic opulence in. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on "Verses" by L.E.L.] Reference
Unlike the narrators in Carter's collection, Andersen, as A. S. Byatt put it in a Keatsian phrase, has 'designs on the reader'. From Wordnik.com. [Angela Carter's fairy tales] Reference
The book is supremely well informed, by means not only of sheer information but of the larger — the Keatsian — sense of what it is to inform. From Wordnik.com. [Keats's Afterlife] Reference
Surely on a feminine-masculine spectrum, a Keatsian “negative capability” is more feminine than masculine, despite being originated by a man. From Wordnik.com. [By the Letters : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
Keats's poetry within a world of consumption and desire familiar to them and to recognize the serious social concerns embedded in Keatsian lyricism. From Wordnik.com. [Ode on a Grecian Urn] Reference
He re-reads the poem he wrote again, sixteen lines cobbled together from a few Shakespearean sonnets, and Keatsian odes, courtesy of literature class. From Wordnik.com. [justinker Diary Entry] Reference
The manner of the whole book is one that can accommodate the tentativeness that is so Keatsian: "To night I am all in a mist; I scarcely know what's what.". From Wordnik.com. [Keats's Afterlife] Reference
We can accommodate the tautologous "Still more, still yet" and its echo in "welling grows" because the Keatsian sumptuousness assumes real emotional power. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: TRANSLATING JÓZSEF.] Reference
"Almost every friend or acquaintance within the Keats circle would sooner or later propose a Keatsian monograph, memoir, or biography" — and Plumly lists eight of them. From Wordnik.com. [Keats's Afterlife] Reference
Black and white, whether Keatsian halos, or the textures of the natural or painterly worlds, figure not so much as opposites as constantly shifting negative space for a single engagement with a looking into the void. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness Audible: Negative Capability and Mark Dotys 'Nocturne in Black and Gold'] Reference
I'll admit to the occasional gasp for air as I valiantly struggled on with a book that still leaves me bemused and in that familiar state of negative capability that is my poetic and Keatsian excuse for anything I don't quite "get". From Wordnik.com. [Barker and Smart] Reference
Moreover, there is more to life than mundane challenges, and a bit of exposure to what Keats would call beauty and truth is a useful expenditure of a student's time; English professors are simply guides to students' appreciation of those Keatsian notions. From Wordnik.com. [Clearance items] Reference
There are no signs here ofthe musical or narrative adventurousness that leavened its predecessor, 2008's Glory Hope Mountain, which means that nothing, from the Keatsian meditations on autumnal scenes in Slippery When Wet, to the muscle-flexing guitars on I Made the Law, feels like essential listening. From Wordnik.com. [The Acorn: No Ghost] Reference
Emptiness of Genius: Aspects of Romanticism, invokes these moments of Keatsian theory, in an argument centering on Coleridge and Jean Paul, to point to the paradoxical status of genius for the Romantics: so often it is conceived in terms of emptiness, precisely where one might expect a rhetoric of plenitude (Bone, passim). From Wordnik.com. [Subjecticity (On Kant and the Texture of Romanticism)] Reference
Braced against such delicacy is a Keatsian counter-quality, robustness. From Wordnik.com. [Powell's Books: Overview] Reference
A Keatsian or Shelleyan phonology at work in this, as well as the Wordsworthian tropology. From Wordnik.com. [Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian] Reference
He has little enough of the Keatsian genius for choosing the word that has the most meaning for the seeing imagination. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Letters] Reference
Arnold comes out of Keatsian romanticism, Clough out of Byronism - specifically, the sceptical, worldly, witty tone-mixing of "Don Juan". From Wordnik.com. [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
The book is supremely well informed, by means not only of sheer information but of the larger -- the Keatsian -- sense of what it is to inform. From Wordnik.com. [Powell's Books: Overview] Reference
Wood treats the novelistic canon like one giant Keatsian urn, a self-sufficient aesthetic artifact removed from commerce with the dirty, human world. From Wordnik.com. [Powell's Books: Overview] Reference
In this Keatsian land of natural abundance, it is hard to imagine the depth of deprivation and poverty that its original inhabitants, the adivasis, suffer. From Wordnik.com. [Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'] Reference
Fragile butterflies and Keatsian plant tendrils festoon the cap and the body while the patented signature star-shaped Montblanc Diamond graces the top of the cap. From Wordnik.com. [Born Rich] Reference
One sees, also, that there is no logical coherence (and not even a Keatsian Negatively Capable coherence) between the titles of Marla's paintings, and what is on the canvas. From Wordnik.com. [Alternative Film Guide] Reference
The Keatsian sensuousness of Toru Dutt's nostalgic poetry, the rhythmical regularity of Derozio's sonnets and the romanticism of Sarojini Naidu's verse were increasingly felt to be inadequate for a nuanced representation of an individual in a changing socio-political landscape. From Wordnik.com. [GotPoetry.com News] Reference
Keatsian issues run deeply throughout Doty’s work in both poetry and prose. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness Audible: Negative Capability and Mark Dotys 'Nocturne in Black and Gold'] Reference
A "Keatsian evocation of Albion" (trans: shambolic scribbles) over doggedly uninspired retro garage rock. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
As I get older I’m increasingly aware of how much my experience of a book depends on the weather (in the Shelleyan sense) and the season (in the Keatsian sense) — that is, on my mood and my age. From Wordnik.com. [Au Revoir Not Adieu « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
Ode on a Grecian Tunic, a Keatsian snarkette. From Wordnik.com. [Regretsy – Three Sheets to the Wind] Reference
Almost every friend or acquaintance within the Keats circle would sooner or later propose a Keatsian monograph, memoir, or biography "-- and Plumly lists eight of them. From Wordnik.com. [Powell's Books: Overview] Reference
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