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
|
LSN: |
0-415-94090-7 |
Barcode: |
9780415940900 |
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