How annoyed must Keats, in his alternate dimension, be that the part of his work people quote most often is from some random letter he wrote to his brother? Or do I just think it is because I'm not a Romanticist, and in fact lots of people go around quoting long reams of "Hyperion" at each other?
(The part of which I speak is this: "...several things dovetailed in my mind, & at once it struck me, what quality went to form a Man of Achievement especially in literature & which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact & reason." It's going in my essay, but I feel bad about it.)
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