Negative Capability is a mildly amusing and amusingly mild diary of 12 months. There are brief visits to Ireland and Italy, but the year is mostly spent between her London home and La Lièvrerie, a ...

The poet John Keats, writing to his brothers about the power of art, truth, and beauty, 1 experienced whilst walking with friends an epiphany regarding William Shakespeare's genius: John Keats. Source ...

At 71, the singer-songwriter legend Marianne Faithfull has been recording for over 50 years. Rightfully so, her 21st album Negative Capability is a reflection on loss and loneliness and love. It’s the ...

In a letter to his brothers in 1817, John Keats shared his admiration for Shakespeare’s “negative capability,” his capacity for “being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable ...

The poet John Keats wrote in 1817 about a quality that “Shakespeare possessed enormously—I mean Negative Capability, that is when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without ...

Released 39 years ago today – 2nd November – an album called Broken English smashed down the boundaries of where women stood in the post-punk era. Not girls, women. Marianne Faithfull was 32 years old ...

The album’s inside artwork features pictures of, among others, William Burroughs and a young Faithfull with a young Bob Dylan before his manual typewriter – totems of negative capability in ...

With a voice so cracked and broken by drugs and hard-living, you’d have been forgiven for thinking that Marianne Faithfull has been eclipsed by her own legend since the late ’70s. But this, her 21st ...