irritable reaching
Feb. 18th, 2018 02:15 pmAt once it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakspeare possessed so enormously—I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.
TO GEORGE AND THOMAS KEATS, on December 22, 1817.