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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.—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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