Sign In
Not register? Register Now!
Essay Available:
Pages:
1 page/≈275 words
Sources:
Check Instructions
Style:
MLA
Subject:
Literature & Language
Type:
Coursework
Language:
English (U.S.)
Document:
MS Word
Date:
Total cost:
$ 4.32
Topic:

Discussion: Tom Keates and Charlotte Smith's works

Coursework Instructions:

Do you see any aspects of Negative Capability in Smith's poems? Discuss/explain your response.
OR
What, if any aspects of Romantics and/or The Gothic do you see in Smith's poems? Discuss/explain your response.
OR
What is ONE thing that stood out to you in the readings? Discuss why it stood out to you? Did it confuse you? Make you realize something? Make you think of another text or experience? What?
1. Negative Capability
[On Negative Capability: Letter to George and Tom Keats, 21, ?27 December 1817]--see https://www(dot)poetryfoundation(dot)org/articles/69384/selections-from-keatss-letters
MORE LINKS to READINGS follow the letter
Hampstead Sunday
22 December 1818
My dear Brothers
I must crave your pardon for not having written ere this [ . . . ] [T]he excellence of every Art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with Beauty & Truth—Examine King Lear & you will find this exemplified throughout; but in this picture we have unpleasantness without any momentous depth of speculation excited, in which to bury its repulsiveness—The picture is larger than Christ rejected—I dined with Haydon the sunday after you left, & had a very pleasant day, I dined too (for I have been out too much lately) with Horace Smith & met his two brothers with Hill & Kingston & one Du Bois, they only served to convince me, how superior humour is to wit in respect to enjoyment—These men say things which make one start, without making one feel, they are all alike; their manners are alike; they all know fashionables; they have a mannerism in their very eating & drinking, in their mere handling a Decanter—They talked of Kean & his low company—Would I were with that company instead of yours said I to myself! I know such like acquaintance will never do for me & yet I am going to Reynolds, on wednesday—Brown & Dilke walked with me & back from the Christmas pantomime. I had not a dispute but a disquisition with Dilke, on various subjects; several things dovetailed in my mind, & at once it struck me, what quality went to form a Man of Achievement especially in Literature & which Shakespeare possessed so enormously—I mean Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason—Coleridge, for instance, would let go by a fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the Penetralium of mystery, from being incapable of remaining content with half knowledge. This pursued through Volumes would perhaps take us no further than this, that with a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
Keats’s “Negative Capability Letter,” Poetry Foundation on Negative Capability: https://www(dot)poetryfoundation(dot)org/learn/glossary-terms/negative-capability
Academy of American Poets on Negative Capability: https://poets(dot)org/glossary/negative-capability
Stephen Hebron, “John Keats and ‘negative capability,’” The British Library: https://www(dot)bl(dot)uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/john-keats-and-negative-capability

Coursework Sample Content Preview:
Name
Tutor
Course
Date
Discussion
Tom Keates and Charlotte Smith's works are some of the best in poetry and writing in general. Keates was a master at articulating what the reader wants to know while Smith was good at posing questions that will leave the reader wanting more. While Smith and Keates differed in their style and objective, one thing that stood out from their readings was how they could make the audience relate to them. It is one thing to write something that the reader has never encountered before. But it is a different thing to write about what the reader knows.
This aspect of the readings stood out to me because it was simple and to the point. Reading great works is often something that p...
Updated on
Get the Whole Paper!
Not exactly what you need?
Do you need a custom essay? Order right now:
Order

You Might Also Like Other Topics Related to poetry analysis:

HIRE A WRITER FROM $11.95 / PAGE
ORDER WITH 15% DISCOUNT!
Order Now