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LOGO BUU MOOC on Selected Readings in British & American Poetry Lecture Six John Keats: “Much Have I Traveled in the Realms of Gold” Agenda: 1. Poetry Reading Aloud 2. Life of John Keats (1795-1821) 3. “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer ” 4. “Negative Capability” 5. “Beauty Is Truth, Truth Beauty” 6. Assignments LOGO Selected Readings in British & American Poetry Lecture Six 4. “Negative Capability” Keats: “Much Have I Traveled in the Realms of Gold” LOGO 4. “Negative Capability” ■At the time of his death he had only published fifty-four poems, and his reputation as a great poet was not secure. ■In his poetry he struggled to make sense of a world full of misery, heartache and pain, sickness, oppression, and death. 2017/2/27 3 Keats: “Much Have I Traveled in the Realms of Gold” LOGO 4. “Negative Capability” ■Especially, toward the end of 1817 when he was 23, Keats entered a period of intense speculation on the nature of poetry. He tried to develop a theory of “negative capability,” the ability to exist in a condition of “uncertainties, mysteries, doubts….” (from Keats’s letter on December 21, 1817). 2017/2/27 4 Keats: “Much Have I Traveled in the Realms of Gold” LOGO 4. “Negative Capability” ■In letters to his brothers and friends we find him searching for the possibility that, by