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 ...

Incredibly, it’s been nearly 40 years since Marianne Faithfull’s career renaissance began with the harrowing ice funk of 1979’s masterful “Broken English.” That album and its two successors were made ...

Marianne Faithfull is a great musical survivor. She went from pure-voiced chanteuse of "As Tears Go By" to emblem of 1960s drug excess before re-emerging in 1979 with "Broken English," a soul-baring ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is certainly audacious to begin a book – subtitled A Diary Of Surviving – with a confession that the reason the work came about at all was that the ominously named “Publisher” and the patronised ...

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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 ...

Incredibly, it’s been nearly 40 years since Marianne Faithfull’s career renaissance began with the harrowing ice funk of 1979’s masterful “Broken English.” That album and its two successors were made ...