Tag Archives: Howard Hillebrand

NEGATIVE CAPABILITY:Curtain Call For The Complexity of Sympathy

“Brown and Dilke walked with me & back from the Christmas pantomime. I had not a dispute but a disquisition with Dilke, on various subjects; several things dovetailed in my mind, & at once it struck me, what quality went to form … Continue reading

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ANARCHY OF THE PASSIONS: BEAUTY OF OPPOSITES

Edmund Kean (1790-1833) was acclaimed as the greatest actor of his time. Something of a prodigy, while still a teenager he gave a command performance for King George III at Windsor Castle. Coleridge said that watching Kean perform “was like … Continue reading

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