{"title":"Walter Jackson Bate","description":"\u003cp\u003eWalter Jackson Bate’s works delve deep into the nuances of literary and artistic expression, offering insightful explorations into concepts such as \u003cem\u003enegative capability\u003c\/em\u003e. His writing invites readers to engage with complex cultural ideas through a thoughtful and measured lens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in the arts and culture sphere, Bate’s books provide a rich understanding of the interplay between creativity and critical thought, making them essential reading for those interested in the philosophical dimensions of literature and art.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"negative-capability-by-walter-jackson-bate-9781971559384","title":"Negative Capability","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1939, Walter Jackson Bate's seminal study of John Keats's \u003cem\u003enegative capability\u003c\/em\u003e remains the definitive account of one of the central ideas of Romantic poetics. At once genealogical and analytical, Bate traces the concept across a wide intellectual field—linking it to William Hazlitt's notion of \"gusto,\" to William Shakespeare's dramatic impersonality, and forward to Henri Bergson's distinction between intellect and intuition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Bate's formulation, \u003cem\u003enegative capability\u003c\/em\u003e emerges as a discipline of disinterestedness and imaginative sympathy: the capacity to relinquish the self and enter fully into the reality of another. Against the egotism and epistemic certainties of his age, Keats proposed instead a poetics grounded in openness—to \"uncertainties, mysteries, doubts.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBate's study restores the full force of that challenge, revealing \u003cem\u003enegative capability\u003c\/em\u003e not as a passing remark but as a rigorous and enduring principle of artistic creation. This edition returns a foundational work to print, with a new introduction by the Italian poet and critic Maura Del Serra—and renews the truth of T. S. Eliot's judgment: that there is scarcely a statement Keats made about poetry that has not proved true.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48038377226476,"sku":"9781971559384","price":33.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781971559384-negative-capability.jpg?v=1785392442"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/walter-jackson-bate.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}