negative capability (Q906597)
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a trait of great writers
Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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English | negative capability |
a trait of great writers |
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negative capability, a writer’s ability, “which Shakespeare possessed so enormously,” to accept “uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason,” according to English poet John Keats, who first used the term in an 1817 letter. (English)
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- arwiki قدرة سلبية
- be_x_oldwiki Нэгатыўная здольнасьць
- cawiki Capacitat negativa
- dewiki Negative Capability
- enwiki Negative capability
- fawiki توانایی منفی
- frwiki Capacité négative
- jawiki ネガティブ・ケイパビリティ
- kowiki 부정적 능력