The Bronte Sisters - Selected Poems (Paperback)

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 the 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 harbor 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 of over seventy poems 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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Fyfield Books
Release date:	April 2002
First published:	April 2002
Authors:	Anne Bronte • Charlotte Bronte • Emily Jane Bronte
Editors:	Stevie Davies
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	126
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-94090-0
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	0-415-94090-7
Barcode:	9780415940900

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