In a letter to his brothers in 1817, John Keats shared his admiration of “negative capability,” the capacity for “being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason,” a concept inspired by Shakespeare, whom Keats admired above all other writers. Where lesser artists backed away from phenomena that upset their reductive […]
Michael Gracey
Michael Gracey teaches English at Pingree School, not far from his home in Newburyport, Massachusetts. His writing has appeared in The Briar Cliff Review, Dogwood, The Green Mountains Review Online, Under The Sun, Post Road, Water~Stone Review, Visitant, and Ninth Letter.