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Poetic concept
Negative capability is the capacity of artists to pursue ideals of beauty, perfection and sublimity even when it leads them into intellectual confusion
Negative_capability
2018 studio album by Marianne Faithfull
Negative Capability is the twentieth studio album by British singer Marianne Faithfull. It was released on 2 November 2018, and produced by Rob Ellis
Negative_Capability_(album)
English singer and actress (1946–2025)
recording new material for at least a year and a half. Faithfull's album Negative Capability, was released in November 2018. It featured Rob Ellis, Warren Ellis
Marianne_Faithfull
American poet
University of South Alabama in 1980. She founded the literary journal Negative capability in 1981 and served as its editor. Walker became an associate professor
Sue_Brannan_Walker
English Romantic poet (1795–1821)
certainly the most unpoetical of all God's Creatures. He used the term negative capability to discuss the state of being in which we are "capable of being in
John_Keats
Chart, but it peaked at #16 on the UK Independent Albums Charts. Negative Capability did not enter the Billboard 200, but it peaked at number 38 on the
Marianne Faithfull discography
Marianne_Faithfull_discography
Debate in social sciences
varieties of this resistance are negative capability. Unlike other theories of structure and agency, negative capability does not reduce the individual
Structure_and_agency
1819 poem by John Keats
a personal poem which describes Keats' journey into the state of negative capability. The tone rejects the optimistic pursuit of pleasure found within
Ode_to_a_Nightingale
American literary critic and biographer (1918–1999)
A brief memoir of Bate by Robert D. Richardson appeared in 2013. Negative Capability: The Intuitive Approach in Keats (1939; reprinted 1976, 2012). From
Walter_Jackson_Bate
Assessment of software development processes
The Capability Maturity Model (CMM) is a development model created in 1986 after a study of data collected from organizations that contracted with the
Capability_Maturity_Model
Form of literature
English Romantic poet John Keats termed this escape from logic "negative capability". This "romantic" approach views form as a key element of successful
Poetry
Acquired ability
capacity to be alone. Asociality Existentialism Good enough parent Negative capability Pascal Samuel Beckett Transitional object J. Kristeva, Melanie Klein
Capacity_to_be_alone
British writer, novelist and poet (born 1949)
to other people’s stories as well as my own'." In her 2020 work, Negative Capability: A Diary of Surviving, Roberts documents a period of crisis following
Michèle_Roberts
1819 poem by John Keats
melancholic as a writer." Negative capability appears subtly in "Ode on Melancholy" according to Harold Bloom, who describes the negatives in the poem as being
Ode_on_Melancholy
1965 song by Bob Dylan
sadness". In 2018, Faithfull recorded the song again for her album Negative Capability. In 1973 the song was covered by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Record
It's_All_Over_Now,_Baby_Blue
2016 live album by Marianne Faithfull
Language English Label earMusic Producer Claudia Lee Marianne Faithfull chronology Give My Love to London (2014) No Exit (2016) Negative Capability (2018)
No Exit (Marianne Faithfull album)
No_Exit_(Marianne_Faithfull_album)
Phrase describing the poetry of William Wordsworth
truth. The egotistical sublime contrasts with Keats's perception of 'negative capability' which he believed to be the ideal and exemplified by the sonnets
Egotistical_sublime
Concept in continental philosophy
Enantiodromia Eroticism Limit situation Metanoia Michel Leiris Negative capability Negative theology R. D. Laing Roudinesco, Élisabeth (2005). Jacques Lacan
Limit-experience
Capacity of individuals to make free choices
Diversity training Empowerment Freedom of speech Gender empowerment Negative capability Paracosm Social action Social relation Structure and agency Theory
Agency_(sociology)
American writer (1934–2020)
magazines, including Sewanee Review, Minnesota Review, Ms. Magazine, and Negative Capability. Her poems have been featured on The Writer's Almanac sixteen times
Pat_Schneider
American news website
honourable", and positively compared the site's mission to John Keats's negative capability. In an opinion piece in The Washington Times, Christopher J. Harper
Vox_(website)
English psychoanalyst and psychiatrist
linking of −K. As his thought continued to develop, Bion came to use Negative Capability and the suspension of Memory and Desire in his work as an analyst
Wilfred_Bion
Control concept
Negative feedback (or balancing feedback) occurs when some function of the output of a system, process, or mechanism is fed back in a manner that tends
Negative_feedback
Normative approach to human welfare
The capability approach (also referred to as the capabilities approach) is a normative approach to human welfare that concentrates on the actual capability
Capability_approach
Natural and legal rights Nature Necessary and sufficient condition Negative capability Nonmaleficence Norm of reciprocity Norm Normative science Normativity
List of philosophical concepts
List_of_philosophical_concepts
Term referring to a social behaviour
silences profonds". Don't ask, don't tell Elephant in the room Innuendo Negative capability Praeteritio Proxemics Spiral of silence Subtext Tacit knowledge Unconscious
Unsaid
1950 book by Lionel Trilling
parallel sentence-structure may symbolize Trilling's dedication to the “negative capability” he encourages throughout the book, in which a thinker can hold two
The_Liberal_Imagination
American jazz guitarist
featuring Francois Grillot, Reggie Sylvester, and Matt Lavelle, released Negative Capability. He also worked with Jayne Cortez, Marc Ribot, Elliott Sharp, Jemeel
Bern_Nix
2021 studio album by Warren Ellis and Marianne Faithfull
Carnage (2021) She Walks in Beauty (2021) La Panthère Des Neiges (2021) Marianne Faithfull chronology Negative Capability (2018) She Walks in Beauty (2021)
She_Walks_in_Beauty_(album)
Style of literary fiction and art
"meta-narration", "open-ended/expansive romanticism", and "imagination/negative capability". Surrealism is often confused with magical realism as they both
Magical_realism
American poet
International Online, Black described disability poetics as a poetics of "negative capability" and "a kind of praise of vulnerability". She said that she began
Sheila_Black
Poems
that this provides the poem with a hint of Keats's philosophy of negative capability, as only the beauty that will die meets the poem's standard of true
John_Keats's_1819_odes
1938 novel by Jean-Paul Sartre
critic William V. Spanos has used Sartre's novel as an example of "negative capability", a presentation of the uncertainty and dread of human existence
Nausea_(novel)
2017 studio album by Chastity Belt
sadder aesthetics and was "built on what John Keats defined as 'negative capability'". Two singles preceded the album's release: the lead single "Different
I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone
I_Used_to_Spend_So_Much_Time_Alone
1977 television film written by Cormac McCarthy
matter, while at the same time thoroughly investigating it. Here was "Negative Capability" of a very high order. I was hooked. Pearce and McCarthy collaborated
The_Gardener's_Son
2009 film score by Mark Bradshaw
No. Title Artist(s) Length 1. "Negative Capability" Mark Bradshaw featuring Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw 3:55 2. "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" Ben Whishaw
Bright_Star_(soundtrack)
unit, similar to an elision. Descriptive poetics Historical poetics Negative capability Pathetic fallacy Poetic diction Poetic license Porson's Law Resolution:
Glossary_of_poetry_terms
American novelist and short story writer (born 1969)
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference (1999). Eve of St. Agnes Award, Negative Capability (1997) Ruth Underhill Award, Denver Women's Press Club (1997) Come
Erika_Krouse
Motion Picture Soundtrack CD 044 Operation: Break Even CD 045 Urinals Negative Capability...Check It Out! CD 046 Today Is the Day Today Is the Day CD, CS,
Amphetamine Reptile Records discography
Amphetamine_Reptile_Records_discography
Potential negative action or event facilitated by a vulnerability
can be either a negative "intentional" event like hacking or an "accidental" negative event or otherwise a circumstance, capability, action, or event
Threat_(computer_security)
and task-executors in the workplace. Unger employs the concept of negative capability to describe the quality of freedom that emerges from liberating ourselves
Politics: A Work in Constructive Social Theory
Politics:_A_Work_in_Constructive_Social_Theory
Brazilian philosopher and politician
them open to resistance and change. This opposition Unger calls negative capability. This leads Unger to the conclusion that change happens piecemeal
Roberto_Mangabeira_Unger
President of the United States from 1861 to 1865
biography that Lincoln was endowed with the personality trait of negative capability, attributed to extraordinary leaders who were "capable of being in
Abraham_Lincoln
American punk-rock band
Records) "Sex"/"Go Away Girl" (7-inch EP, 1980, Happy Squid Records) Negative Capability...Check It Out! (CD, 1996, Amphetamine Reptile Records, 2004, Warning
Urinals_(band)
role responsiveness has also been highlighted. Analytic neutrality Negative capability W. R. Bion Laplanche, Jean; Pontalis, Jean-Bertrand (1988). "Attention
Evenly_suspended_attention
Portrait". Point of View, May 25, 2024. Justin Anderson, "Feature drama Negative Capability rolls in Toronto". Playback, October 25, 2023. Kelly Townsend, "Radio-Canada
List of Canadian films of 2024
List_of_Canadian_films_of_2024
Military and covert operations conducted outside Iran
Person's Story". Abdorrahman Boroumand Center. Retrieved 3 July 2025. "Negative Capability of Tolerance -the Assassination of Hitoshi Igarashr" (PDF). 1992
Iranian_external_operations
Era in English-language literature
important "for their discussion of his aesthetic ideas", including 'negative capability'". Keats has always been regarded as a major Romantic, "and his stature
Romantic literature in English
Romantic_literature_in_English
Portuguese-American writer
ISBN 9780991378029) It's Best Not to Interrupt Her Experiments (Negative Capability Press, 2016, ISBN 978-0942544329) Big Bad Asterisk* (BlazeVOX [books]
Carlo_Matos
Overview of terms coined by the 20th-century German philosopher
letting-go, being-let, and letting-be. Scott, Nathan A. (1969). Negative Capability. Studies in the New Literature and the Religious Situation. New Haven
Heideggerian_terminology
2003 studio album by Medicine
Yrs" 4:35 7. "Astral Gravy" 2:56 8. "Good for Me" 3:56 9. "Negative Capability" Brad Laner 3:39 10. "Whiz" 3:36 11. "Sodden Rockets" Kid606, Brad
The_Mechanical_Forces_of_Love
Book by Clive James
superior to. It was too various. What I had to offer was negative capability, a capability for submission to the medium. I was the first to submit myself
Visions_Before_Midnight
expressed this idea in The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream (1819). Keats Negative Capability John Keats, letter To J H Reynolds, 3 May 1818. see Colvin, SidneyJohn
Mansion_of_Many_Apartments
Material with a negative refractive index
Negative-index metamaterial or negative-index material (NIM) is a metamaterial whose refractive index for an electromagnetic wave has a negative value
Negative-index_metamaterial
Species of bacterium
Proteus mirabilis is a Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped, nitrate-reducing, indole-negative bacterium. It shows swarming motility and
Proteus_mirabilis
Genre of literature
creating multi-genre narratives, a process he likens to John Keats' negative capability. In Z213: Exit he combines, in a kind of a modern-day palimpsest
Experimental_literature
American poet, teacher
Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic (1995) Negative Capability: Contemporary American Poetry (2001) "3 new Chancellors named to
Linda_Gregerson
American poet and writer (born 1935)
The Georgia State University Review, 1977-78: "Blood Brother." Negative Capability: "Valentine's Day, 1982;" Volume VII, Numbers I & II, 1987. "Sewing;"
Rosemary_Daniell
Element of Japanese language
katsuyōkei; literally "conjugation forms"). This article lists those from the negative base (未然形, mizenkei), as well as the tentative base (推量形/意思形, suiryōkei/ishikei)
Japanese conjugation (mizenkei base)
Japanese_conjugation_(mizenkei_base)
Mystical Scientific Poem
Dianoia List of Persian-language poets and authors Logos Mysticism Negative capability Other (philosophy) Panpsychism Poetics (Aristotle) Praxis (process)
Philosophical_poets
Contemporary social theory
democracy Formative context Historical determinism Necessitarianism Negative capability Postanarchism Unger, Robero Mangabeira, False necessity: anti-necessitarian
False_necessity
American lawyer
condition, and thus an inevitable facet of the legal world as well. Negative capability Roberto Unger Mark Kelman, What Followed Was Pure Lesley (1973) Mark
Mark_Kelman
Poem by Yusef Komunyakaa
Salas, Angela M. (1 September 2003). "Race, Human Empathy, and Negative Capability: The Poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa". College Literature. 30 (4). The
Facing_It
Irish-American poet (1938–2017)
Cincinnati Poetry Review, Cyphers, Florida Review, Heliotrope, Lumina, Negative Capability, Poetry Ireland Review, Salamander, Salt Hill Journal, and St. Ann's
Sabra_Loomis
Framework used to study social phenomena
and empowerment make change possible. Unger calls this empowerment negative capability. However, Unger adds that these outcomes are always reliant on the
Social_theory
American poet, critic and scholar (born 1950)
January 2016. Retrieved 9 October 2018. "Modelling Australian Poetry | Negative Capability". Michellecahill.com. 4 February 2013. Archived from the original
Paul_Kane_(poet)
Canadian poet and children's writer (born 1951)
Award (Third Prize) for “The Remains Of Edward’s”, published in Negative Capability, Mobile, Alabama,1989 A Man to Marry, A Man to Bury, short-listed
Susan_Musgrave
Book by William Hazlitt
Round Table, which had helped him develop his celebrated idea about "Negative Capability", this essay on King Lear inspired much of his own poetry and thoughts
Characters of Shakespear's Plays
Characters_of_Shakespear's_Plays
American writer (1942–2024)
Live With 1991–1992 Faculty Fellowship, University of Colorado 1993 Negative Capability Award for Fiction 1995 Spoon River Poetry Review Poetry Prize 1996
Marilyn_Krysl
Percentage of a sum of money charged for its use
maturities and convertibility costs, where cash provides immediate transaction capability with zero conversion costs. This preference creates a term structure of
Interest_rate
Ukrainian poet and writer
on the Line: Selections on Words and Healing" – Mobile, Alabama: Negative Capability Press, 1992, pages 647 (Lyubov Sirota: Charter VIII “With hope for
Lyubov_Sirota
American academic
worldviews. He relates this stance to the way Keats referred to as negative capability. Ideally it furnishes one with a critical perspective on both one's
Vincent_Crapanzano
Austrian-American psychoanalyst (1888–1969)
psychoanalyst. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Dorothy Burlingham Negative capability The Question of Lay Analysis P. Gay, Freud (1989) p. 490 * Tréhel
Theodor_Reik
he sets forth is one that has the best chance of harnessing the "negative capability" of human beings—that is, teaching the person "to move within contexts
The Critical Legal Studies Movement
The_Critical_Legal_Studies_Movement
1935 novel by George Santayana
little part. In an extraordinary act of artistic self-sacrifice, of negative capability, Santayana sets Oliver free to achieve his own destiny on his own
The_Last_Puritan
Canadian academic and intelligence agent
(person or thing). The latter is explained via John Keats's notion of negative capability, which Whalley sees as a rhythm in the mind of the poet that moves
George_Whalley
American/French author
Paris Transcontinental, #7 spring 1993, prizewinner. Conch Salad, Negative Capability, vol XIV #3, 1995. Oasis, Tampa Review, 1996. French Love Affair
Gwen_Strauss
American singer
Spaceships "Planets Are Blasted" Blanket Music "Nice" Fancie "A Negative Capability" King Black Acid "Loves A Long Song" Loch Lomond "Paper The Walls"
Kaitlyn_ni_Donovan
American poet
Chapter 16 Whatever Remembers Us: An Anthology of Alabama Poetry (Negative Capability Press, 2007) Best American Poets 2003 (Scribner, 2003) Orpheus and
Diann_Blakely
American writer (born 1941)
has had short stories published in Cimarron Review, Confrontation, Negative Capability, Northwest Review, Redbook, and Seattle Review. Lyons was also a
Grant_Lyons
Light-sensitive material used in making electronics
object intensity modulation and it is a parameter that indicates the capability of an optical system. The following table is based on generalizations
Photoresist
English photographer and installation artist
Research at BALTIC. Crisp's current research centres on the idea of Negative Capability – a phrase first used by the poet John Keats to describe a desirable
Fiona_Crisp
American poet
(v. 2, no. 1, 1983, p. 5) Yellow Silk (no. 6, winter 1983, p. 5) Negative Capability (v. 2, no. 4, fall 1982, p. 84) Pinchpenny (v. 3, no. 2, April/May
Howard_W._Robertson
Independent non-profit publisher
and was the recipient of an Eve of St. Agnes Poetry Award from Negative Capability journal in 1993. A two-time Yale Series of Younger Poets finalist
Kaya_Press
Lebanese-American poet, professor, fiction writer, literary critic and essayist
a Poem in a Long Time" Negative Capability's Eve of St. Agnes Award Finalist (1994): "A Glimpse of Fall" Negative Capability's Eve of St. Agnes Award
Hedy_Habra
cognitive and social inertia.[citation needed] Empowered democracy Negative capability Structure and agency Trubek, David M. 1990. "Programmatic Thought
Formative_context
1819 poem by John Keats
In this way, the poems as a group capture Keats's philosophy of negative capability, the concept of living with unreconciled contradictory views, by
Ode_on_Indolence
Written works of Alabama
Whatever Remembers Us: An Anthology of Alabama Poetry. Mobile, Ala.: Negative Capability Press, 2007. Don Noble, ed. A State of Laughter: Comic Fiction from
Alabama_literature
American literary critic (1905–1975)
Letters of John Keats (1951), in which he defended Keats's notion of negative capability, as well as the introduction, "George Orwell and the Politics of
Lionel_Trilling
American poet and fiction writer (born 1948)
Duyvil 2019). Digigram (United Artists Books, 2020) A Day Like Today (Negative Capability, 2015) A Swift Passage (Quale Press, 2013) Cities and Memory (Chax
Barbara_Henning
Literature. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. 1966. Negative Capability. Studies in the New Literature and the Religious Situation. New Haven
Nathan_A._Scott_Jr.
Species of bacterium
wastewater treatment plant of a petroleum refinery. B. petroleovorans has the capability to degrade cyclohexane and aromatic compounds such as toluene and m-cresol
Brachymonas_petroleovorans
American painter
Angeles Review of Books, praised Miller for being a "master" of negative capability, the ability to work through and within a state of uncertainty. He
Allison_Miller_(artist)
19th-century English essayist and critic (1778-1830)
his career. Some of Keats's writing, particularly his key idea of "negative capability", was influenced by the concept of "disinterested sympathy" he discovered
William_Hazlitt
American poet and educator
Poet Lore, 87, 2 (Summer, 1992), p. 21-22. “Myself as a House,” Negative Capability, 11, 1&2 (1992), p. 194-95. “Cleaning the Alley at Last,” “Mirror
Benjamin_Saltman
American poet, librettist and editor
Poetry 1989 (Macmillan Publishing Company, 1989) Life on the Line (Negative Capability Press, 1990) KGB Bar Book of Poems (William Morrow, 2000) International
Anna_Rabinowitz
American jazz musician
Daniel Carter and Matt Lavelle (Spiritual Power, 2004) With Bern Nix Negative Capability (Kitchen Records,2013) With Giuseppi Logan The Giuseppi Logan Quintet
Matt_Lavelle
Automobiles notable for negative reception
Some models of automobiles receive high positive acclaim or negative reviews in the media and trade magazines. Reviews are both subjective and performance-based
List of automobiles notable for negative reception
List_of_automobiles_notable_for_negative_reception
Structuring text as input to generative artificial intelligence
During the 2020s AI boom, prompt engineering became regarded as a business capability across corporations and industries. Employees with the title prompt engineer
Prompt_engineering
Disease-causing bacteria
in the recipient cell's DNA. Among pathogenic bacteria, transformation capability likely serves as an adaptation that facilitates survival and infectivity
Pathogenic_bacteria
NEGATIVE CAPABILITY
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Female
Native American
Native American Hopi name WAKI means "shelter."
Male
Native American
Native American Algonquin name ASKOOK means "snake."
Female
Native American
Native American Sioux name WEEKO means "pretty."
Female
Native American
Native American name APONI means "butterfly."
Male
Native American
Native American Sioux name CHAYTON means "falcon."
Male
Native American
Native American Algonquin name ACHAK means "spirit."
Female
Native American
Native American Hopi name YAMKA means "blossom."
Male
Native American
Native American Algonquin name CHANSOMPS means "locust."
Female
Native American
Native American Hopi name ZIHNA means "spins."
Girl/Female
Indian, Sikh
Demolishing Negative Energy
Female
Native American
Native American Hopi name YOKI means "rain."
Female
Native American
Native American Hopi name WUTI means "woman."
Male
Native American
Native American Algonquin name ABOOKSIGUN means "wildcat."
Female
Native American
Native American Algonquin name WIKIMAK means "wife."
Female
Native American
Native American Sioux name WITASHNAH means "virginal."
Male
Native American
Native American Hopi name CHOOVIO means "antelope."
Male
Native American
Native American Algonquin name CHOGAN means "blackbird."
Female
Native American
Native American Dakota name ZITKALA means "bird."
Male
Native American
Native American Algonquin name ABUKCHEECH means "mouse."
Male
Native American
Native American Navajo name ASHKII means "boy."
NEGATIVE CAPABILITY
NEGATIVE CAPABILITY
Girl/Female
Tamil
Ujwala | உஜà¯à®œà®µà®¾à®²à®¾
Bright, Lustrous
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from the city of Lincoln, so named from an original British name Lindo- ‘lake’ + Latin colonia ‘settlement’, ‘colony’. The place was an important administrative center during the Roman occupation of Britain and in the Middle Ages it was a center for the manufacture of cloth, including the famous ‘Lincoln green’.Abraham Lincoln (1809–65), 16th president of the United States, was the son of an illiterate laborer, descended from a certain Samuel Lincoln, who had emigrated from England to MA in 1637.
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Soldier of the Battlefield
Girl/Female
Indian
Achiever; Harmony
Girl/Female
Hebrew
Asked of God.
Boy/Male
Tamil
Embrace
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
King of the Planets
Female
Swedish
Swedish form of Roman Latin Marina, MARNA means "of the sea."
Girl/Female
Tamil
Kavishri | கவிஷà¯à®°à¯€, கவிஷà¯à®°à¯€  Â
Goddess Lakshmi
Female
Danish
, spear maid; or, enclosure.
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a.
Expressing denial; belonging to negation; negative.
n.
A proposition by which something is denied or forbidden; a conception or term formed by prefixing the negative particle to one which is positive; an opposite or contradictory term or conception.
a.
Made by, proceeding from, or under the sanction of, a legate; as, a legatine constitution.
a.
Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject.
a.
Not positive; without affirmative statement or demonstration; indirect; consisting in the absence of something; privative; as, a negative argument; a negative morality; negative criticism.
n.
The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
a.
Found in nature uncombined with other elements; as, native silver.
a.
Denying; renouncing; negative.
a.
Of or pertaining to a legate; as, legatine power.
a.
Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate; as, a negative proposition.
a.
Negative; nonmetallic; acid; -- opposed to positive, metallic, or basic.
imp. & p. p.
of Negative
a.
Metalloidal; nonmetallic; -- contracted with positive or basic; as, the nitro group is negative.
a.
Having the nature of a plant; vegetable; as, vegetive life.
v. t.
To reject by vote; to refuse to enact or sanction; as, the Senate negatived the bill.
n.
That side of a question which denies or refuses, or which is taken by an opposing or denying party; the relation or position of denial or opposition; as, the question was decided in the negative.
a.
Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing assent; as, a negative answer; a negative opinion; -- opposed to affirmative.
adv.
In a negative manner; with or by denial.
a.
Found in nature; not artificial; as native sodium chloride.
a.
Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun.