Selected Poems: The Brontë Sisters
Oct 2012 · Carcanet Press Limited
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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.
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 o...
About the author
Stevie Davies is a literary critic, novelist, historian and biographer. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1998, and now works as the Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at the University of Wales in Swansea, her home town. She taught English Literature at Manchester University before becoming a full-time author in 1984. Anne Brontë is best known for her novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Charlotte Brontë is best known for her novels Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor. Emily Brontë is best known for her novel Wuthering Heights. A collection of poems by the Brontë sisters was published in 1846.
Stevie Davies is a literary critic, novelist, historian and biographer. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1998, and now works as the Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at the University of Wales in Swansea, her home town. She taught English Literature at Manchester Un...
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