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Teaching Resources Make Your Own Poetry Anthology Teaching students to make their own poetry anthologies in the form of a commonplace book gives them insight into the power, and problems, of curation.
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JSTOR Daily, 8 Jan. 2025
Teaching students to make their own poetry anthologies in the form of a commonplace book gives them insight into the power, and problems, of curation.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 16 May 2018
Garner, whose book reviews are a highlight of the Times culture pages, serves up a commonplace book composed of literary quotations, advice for living, recipes, and a heaping side order of memoir.
—Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
After his wife left him in 1642, John Milton processed it in his commonplace book, chronicling a reading binge about bad marriages.
—New York Times, 22 Mar. 2022
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, 13 Feb. 2020
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JSTOR Daily, 8 Jan. 2025
Teaching students to make their own poetry anthologies in the form of a commonplace book gives them insight into the power, and problems, of curation.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 16 May 2018
Garner, whose book reviews are a highlight of the Times culture pages, serves up a commonplace book composed of literary quotations, advice for living, recipes, and a heaping side order of memoir.
—Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
After his wife left him in 1642, John Milton processed it in his commonplace book, chronicling a reading binge about bad marriages.
—New York Times, 22 Mar. 2022
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, 13 Feb. 2020
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“Commonplace book.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commonplace%20book. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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