Notebook writing (and Romanticism) [ Diaries & Letters / Reading & Writing ]
… from Notebook (Vol II)’, British Library, Add MS 47497, August 1802. Résumé Many Romantic poets and thinkers kept notebooks to jot down miscellaneous entries ranging from minute observations of natural objects, fragments of lectures or … entry focuses more specifically on the socializing function of the notebook and notebook writing and argues that notebooks such as those of Coleridge, Dorothy Wordsworth and Godwin are valuable records of Romantic sociable practices. … traces of daily life.’ For 40 years, as a way of preserving memories, Coleridge wrote in his pocket-book format notebooks, often in an elliptic way, work projects, snatches of poems, thinking processes, observations, meditations, …
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