That this book ranges so richly, so variously, and so widely will be welcome to all readers, not least because it embodies the Shakespearean aspects of negative capability.
Nicholas Roe, Wardlaw Professor of English Literature at the University of St Andrews Keats's Negative Capability will ... prompt [ its readers] to think again and anew and unceasingly on what negative capability was, is, and can become.
Jonathan Mulrooney, Associate Professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross [ A] wonderfully diverse collection that equally tells the story of Keats while profitably poking and probing the discursive, diffusive, and cultural powers of the term [ negative capability] in the spirit of an intelligently designed Keatsian smorgasbord, the collection has something for everyone. G. Kim Blank, The Wordsworth Circle 'This book significantly and provocatively reconfigures our understanding of Keats's poetry and letters, his authorial intentions, his aesthetic philosophy, and his global legacy.' Rebecca Nesvet, Review 19 '[ A] thought-provoking collection of commentary and innovative thinking... The work here will not provide statements of fact and reason, but instead will stimulate future scholarship on Keats and Romantic legacy for many years to come.' Anna Mercer, The Hazlitt Review '[ The essays'] disagreements about what negative capability can and cant mean give the volume a conversational dynamism; even their anxiety resembles the urgency of a spirited argument between friends... As Jonathan Mulrooneys afterward notes, the collections dissonance is its most Keatsian feature.' Brittany Pladek, European Romantic Review 'The collection will be essential to students and scholars of Keats as Rejack's analysis of John Jeffrey's role in transcribing 'Negative Capability' refreshes our understating of the concept. Contributors to this collection have risen to Rejack's editorial challenge and, produced prominent and diverse readings, which extend in variety across a range of critical approaches, including feminism, phenomenology, and psychoanalysis. Keats's 'Negative Capability' remains a vital concept, which continues to provoke readers and writers alike to reflect on its myriad values and virtues in the present and will continue to do so in the future.' Amina Brik, The BARS Review
