Notebook writing (and Romanticism) [ Diaries & Letters / Reading & Writing ]
… homes, gardens, valleys, mountains, in their concreteness, in their sensible and social reality, marks them also as spaces for sociability and active participants in the imaginative act of poetry-making. By comparing poets’ notebooks, we … home becomes an important component of sociability. Because notebook writing usually plays with words, forms and blank spaces on the page, we are given a glimpse of this conflictual or fluctuating sociability: ‘ Saturday 15th […] We had a …
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