...experienced writers for new writers. Chapter 5 Processes of creative writing As to the poetical character ... it is not itself- it has no self- it is every thing...- It has no character - it enjoys light and shade; it lives in gusto, be it foul or fair, high or low, rich or poor, mean or elevated - It has as much...

...perspective: As to the poetical Character itself, ... it is not itself — it has no self — it is in every thing and nothing — It has no character — it enjoys light and shade; it lives in gusto, be it foul or fair, high or low, rich or poor, mean or elevated — It has as much...

...poetical Character itself, (I mean that sort of which, if I am any thing, I am a Member; that sort distinguished from the wordsworthian or egotistical...It has no character — it enjoys light and shade; it lives in gusto, be it foul or fair, high or low, rich or poor, mean or elevated — It has as much...

...which is called religion« (Shelley 1977, 482). Keats: »As to the poetical Character itself [...] it is not itself — it has no self — it is every...It has no character — it enjoys light and shade; it lives in gusto, be it foul or fair, high or low, rich or poor, mean or elevated — It has as much...

...returning to Shakespeare as an exemplar of this "poetical Character," Keats writes of that character that "it is not itself — it has no self — it is every thing and nothing — It has no character" (226-27). For Keats, this "negative capability" signifies a capacity to suspend especially the foundational...