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Coleridge’s Fly-Catchers: Adapting Commonplace-Book Form
- Journal of the History of Ideas
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 73, Number 3, July 2012
- pp. 463-483
- 10.1353/jhi.2012.0027
- Article
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This article makes two claims for the poet and thinker Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s massive collection of notebooks: first, that they should be reassessed as a new stage in the evolution of the commonplace book tradition and second, that the way they revise commonplace book form exemplifies new Romantic theories of knowledge.