Keats anyone???

I am so confused on a question on a paper that I have to do... I have to respond to a quote and relate it to a text written by Keats. The quote that I have to respond to is as follows... -In an 1817 letter, Keats explains, "I mean Negative Capability , that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason.... This pursued through Volumes would perhaps take us no further than this, that with a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration."

I'm having trouble descripting what it is that Keats is saying?? Anyone able to help with this? I'd be in your debt!

De

Dee

Try these websites: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...ive+capability

After perusing a couple I did not exactly find what I remembered negative capabilty to be. But I'm sure they are more correct than my memory.