Selected Poems: The Brontë Sisters

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, British & Irish
Cover of the book Selected Poems: The Brontë Sisters by Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Carcanet Press Ltd.
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Author: Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë ISBN: 9781847779854
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd. Publication: October 1, 2012
Imprint: Carcanet Press Ltd. Language: English
Author: Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë
ISBN: 9781847779854
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.
Publication: October 1, 2012
Imprint: Carcanet Press Ltd.
Language: English

Although the Brontë sisters 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 is certainly a competent poet, and Anne developed a distinctive voice, while Emily 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 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 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.

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Although the Brontë sisters 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 is certainly a competent poet, and Anne developed a distinctive voice, while Emily 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 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 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.

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