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Keats belongs to English Romantic poetry, not ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. His poems and letters explore imagination, beauty, uncertainty, and mortality.
Keats’s phrase for remaining receptive to uncertainty and mystery without impatiently forcing an explanation, especially in poetry and imagination. It is not a rejection of evidence.
…being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.John Keats
Letter to George and Tom Keats · December 1817 · 1848 printing
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