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Title: SELECTED POEMS
By: Michelle Burke, Bronwen Evans, Tania Palmieri
Format: Electronic book text

List price: £9.95


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ISBN 10: 1847779859
ISBN 13: 9781847779854
Publisher: CARCANET PRESS LTD
Pub. date: 27 July, 2012
Pages: 128
Language: English, Undetermined language
Synopsis: 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.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Fyfield Books
Returns: Non-returnable
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