...of negative capability in a number of memorable phrases: "A Poet is the most unpoetical of any thing in existence: because he has no Identity — he is continually in for — and filling some other body";2 the "camelion poet" [sic], as distinguished from the poet of "the wordsworthian or egotistical...

...aspect of the letter relates to, though is noticeably different from, Keats' assertion that the poet 'has no Identity - he is continually in for - and filling some other body'; Clare instead wants lots of identities. Rather than an absence or denial of self he wants a free plurality...

...its relish of the dark side of things, any more than from its taste for the bright one, because they both end in speculation. A poet is the most unpoetical...sun, the moon, the sea and men and women, who are creatures of impulse, are poetical and have about them an unchangeable attribute; the poet has none....

...its relish of the dark side of things any more than from its taste for the bright one; because they both end in speculation. A Poet is the most unpoetical...The Sun, the Moon, the Sea and Men and Women who are creatures of impulse are poetical and have about them an unchangeable attribute. The poet has none;...

...identity is the imperative qualification for being a poet: A Poet is the most unpoetical of any thing in existence; because he has no Identity he is continually...The Sun, the Moon, the Sea and Men and Women who are creatures of impulse are poetical and have about them an unchangeable attribute - the poet has none;...

...most unpoetical of all God's Creatures': John Keats, 1818 A Poet is the most unpoetical of any thing in existence, because he has no identity - he is continually...Sun, the Moon, the Sea, and Men and Women who are creatures of impulse are poetical and have about them an unchangeable attribute - the poet has none;...

...taste for the bright one; because they both end in speculation. A Poet is the most unpoetical thing in existence; because he has no Identity —he is...continually in for —and filling some other Body." 21 To surrender to the other is thus to lose one's identity, making the poet a momentary receptacle...

..."wordsworthian or egotistical sublime." The point, Keats declares, is that the true or genuine poet "has no Identity — he is continually in for — and filling some other Body." I understand Keats as proposing a kind of ec-stasy, with the poet capable of stepping outside himself...

...other Romantics, he did not insist on defining his masculine identity. He declares instead that a poet "has no Identity; he is continually in for and filling some other Body."282 This meets with the psychoanalytic view of "the self as unbounded, fluid, decentered, inconsistent",...

...— it is every thing and nothing— It has no character A Poet is the most unpoetical of any thing in existence; because he has no Identity — he is continually in for — and filling some other Body.'4 And recent studies have convincingly argued that in many respects Eliot's criticism is continuous...