Definition of COMMONPLACE BOOK

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Recent Examples on the Web His most unforgettable stories are the ones that set his mannerism against literary forms that stress the essentially social nature of language: the index, the aphorism, the commonplace book, the interview, the e-mail. — Merve Emre, The New York Review of Books, "Private Parts of Speech," 10 Mar. 2020 Sometime around 1535, Sir Thomas Wyatt, a poet and ambassador in the court of King Henry VIII, had a scribe copy into his personal commonplace book a poem that Wyatt had composed. — Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, "Like You This," 28 Jan. 2020 The manuscript diary and personal, commonplace book flourished. — John Sutherland, New York Times, "We Are What We Read," 2 Jan. 2018 The manuscript diary and personal, commonplace book flourished. — John Sutherland, New York Times, "We Are What We Read," 2 Jan. 2018

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“Commonplace book.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commonplace%20book. Accessed 8 Jul. 2020.