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{{Short description|Poetic concept}} {{for|the album by Marianne Faithfull|Negative Capability (album)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}} {{essay|date=November 2020}} '''Negative capability''' is the capacity of artists to pursue ideals of beauty, perfection and [[Sublime (philosophy)|sublimity]] even when it leads them into intellectual confusion and uncertainty, as opposed to a preference for philosophical certainty over artistic beauty. The term, first used by [[John Keats]] in 1817, has been subsequently used by poets, philosophers and [[Literary theory|literary theorist]]s to describe the ability to perceive and recognize truths beyond the reach of what Keats called "consecutive reasoning".
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