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Negative Capability,New Isserman Though Tufariello Is Known InThe Term 'Negative Capability' Was Coined Early In The Nineteenth Century By John Keats To Describe A State Of Mind. To Be In The State Of Negative Capability Is To 'Become' Other Persons, Other Entities Of Many Kinds, And To Live Inside Those Others, In So Doing Enlarging One'S Own Consciousness. It Is Preeminently The State In Which Poetry Is Possible. Negative Capability Begins With A Play, 'Keats At Thirty.' John Keats Died At Twentyfive Without