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Selected PoemsAnne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë and Emily BrontëEdited by Stevie Davies10% off eBook (EPUB)
Categories: 19th Century, Women
Imprint: Fyfield Books Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Jul 2012) 9781847779854 £9.95 £8.96 Paperback (128 pages) (Pub. Jan 1996) 9780856351310 Out of Stock To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have and are not prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
Although The Brontes have long fascinated readers of fiction and biography, their poetry was all too little known until this pioneering selection by Stevie Davies, the novelist and critic. Charlotte (1816-1855) is certainly a competent poet, and Anne (1820-1849) developed a distinctive voice, while Emily (1818-1848) is one of great women poets in English.
All three sisters, as Stevie Davies remarks in her introduction, were Romantic in inspiration, writing poetry of passionate personal feeling and of pure imagination. They share certain themes - liberty, loneliness, love - and harbour the myth of a lost paradise. Read together with their novels, the poems movingly elucidate the ideas around which the narratives revolve. And they surprise us out of our conventional notions of the sisters' personalities: Emily's rebelliousness, for example, is counterbalanced here by great tenderness. This selection gives an idea of the variety of thought and feeling within each author's work, and of the way in which the poems of these three remarkable writers parallel and reflect each other.
Table of Contents
Introduction The Brontes as Poets Charlotte Bronte Emily Jane Bronte Anne Bronte Poems by Charlotte Bronte Lines Addressed to 'The Tower of All Nations' Written upon the Occasion of the Dinner Given to the Literati of the Glasstown Home-Sickness from Retrospection The Wounded Stag 'Turn not now for comfort here' The Teacher's Monologue Diving Gods of the Old Mythology Parting Preference Morning Master and Pupil Reason 'He saw my heart's woe, discovered my soul's anguish' On the Death of Emily Jane Bronte On the Death of Anne Bronte Poems by Emily Jane Bronte 'High waving heather, 'neath stormy blasts bending' 'All day I've toiled, but not with pain' 'I am the only being whose doom' 'Only some spires of bright green grass' 'Now trust a heart that trusts in you' A.G.A. ('Sleep brings no joy to me') 'I'll come when thou art saddest' 'I'm happiest when most away' Song ('King Julius left the south country') 'And now the house-dog stretched once more' 'Shed no tears o'er that tomb' A.A.A. ('Sleep not, dream not; this bright day') Song ('O between distress and pleasure') 'There was a time when my cheek burned' '"Well, some may hate, and some may scorn"' 'It is too late to call thee now' 'Riches I hold in light esteem' 'Shall Earth no more inspire thee' 'Aye, there it is! It wakes to-night' How Clear She Shines! 'In the earth, the earth, thou shalt be laid' A.G.A. to A.S. ('This summer wind, with thee and me') 'Come, walk with me' To Imagination 'O thy bright eyes must answer now' The Philosopher's Conclusion R. Alcona to J. Brenzaida ('Cold in the earth, and the deep snow piled above thee!') 'Death, that struck when I was most confiding' 'Ah! Why, because the dazzling sun' 'How beautiful the Earth is still' from Julian M. and A.G. Rochelle 8'No coward soul is mine' 'Why ask to know what date, what clime?' Stanzas ('Often rebuked, yet always back returning') Poems by Anne Bronte A Voice from the Dungeon The North Wind Verses to a Child Retirement Despondency To Cowper A Word to the 'Elect' Past Days A Reminiscence A Prayer Night Dreams If this be All Song ('We know where deepest lies the snow') Song ('Come to the banquet; triumph in your songs!') Oh, They Have Robbed Me of the Hope Domestic Peace Severed and Gone Farewell to Thee! But Not Farewell Index of Last Lines Notes
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