person
also known as Keats
English Romantic poet, present in the series through one phrase from his letters — negative capability, the capacity to stay in uncertainty and mystery without grasping after fact and reason. In dialogue 65 the pair start from a passage on Keats and end by using the phrase to describe what their own conversation is. New to him — dialogue 65 is his whole appearance so far.
Across the dialogues
65
Enters as the source of the session''s closing frame — his negative capability supplies the pair with a name for their own method
The letter's formula is recited from memory and used to close the session, which is the only role Keats plays here and the decisive one.
"When a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason, that's what we've come to. Negative capability."
Connections
connects toNegative Capability
The phrase from his letters that the pair adopt as a self-description.