# John Keats — Practical Mysticism character guide

> John Keats in Practical Mysticism by Evelyn Underhill.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Keats

**First appearance:** 0005-ii-the-world-of-reality

## Who they are

Romantic poet quoted for his concept of negative capability and mystical insight.

## Relationships

### [The Practical Man](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/practical_mysticism_se/characters/the_practical_man)

_psychological_

Keats's poetic sensibility challenges the Practical Man's utilitarian worldview, representing the conflict between aesthetic intuition and material concerns.

## In the story

### [The World of Reality](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/practical_mysticism_se/chapters/ii-the-world-of-reality)

Keats is quoted for his aspiration 'O for a life of sensations rather than thoughts!' as an example of the poetic desire to escape conceptual thought and reach intuitive contact with reality.

### [III: The Preparation of the Mystic](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/practical_mysticism_se/chapters/iii-the-preparation-of-the-mystic)

Quoted for the line 'All which I took from thee I did but take...' in the context of purification.

### [IV: Meditation and Recollection](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/practical_mysticism_se/chapters/iv-meditation-and-recollection)

Keats is quoted for his poetic lines about 'Reason has moons, but moons not hers,' illustrating the meditative eye glimpsing a dream within rational propositions.

### [Love and Will](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/practical_mysticism_se/chapters/vi-love-and-will)

Mentioned in the context of the supremacy of feeling over thought, aligning with the mystical emphasis on loving intuition.

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