Accompanied by an interpretive preface on "The Gondal Story" by Miss Fannie E. Originally released in 1923, Hatfield's collection was the result of a remarkable attempt over twenty years to isolate Emily's poems from her sisters' and to achieve chronological order.
Some were deited and preserved by Charlotte and Arthur Bell Nichols still others were discovered years later by Bront scholars. This incomparable volume includes Emily's verse from Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell as well as 200 works collected from various manuscript sources after her death in 1848. To my ear they had also a peculiar music - wild, melancholy, and elevating." The renowned Hatfield edition of The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Bront includes the poetry that captivated Charlotte Bront a century and a half ago, a body of work that continues to resonate today. I thought them condensed and terse, vigorous and genuine. volume of verse in my sister Emily's handwriting.I looked it over, amd something more than surprise seized me - a deep conviction that these were not common effusions, nor at all like the poetry women generally write. Charlotte later recalled: "I accidentally lighted on a MS. As children, these English sisters had begun writing poems and stories abotu an imaginary country named Gondal, yet they never sought to publish any of their work until Charlotte's discovery of Emily's more mature poems in the autumn of 1845. The three psuedonymous poets, the Bront sisters went on to unprecedented success with such novels as Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey, and Jane Eyre, all published in the following year. It contains all of her poems plus very helpful background information and annotations.In 1846 a small book entitled Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell appeared on the British Literary scene. The next poem is perhaps the shortest (though hardly the sweetest) of all of Emily Brontë’s poems.įrom the sun to a summer’s evening – this final poem sounds a familiarly sorrowful note.Ĭontinue your Victorian odyssey with our facts about the Brontë sisters and we have more great Victorian verse in this collection of classic short Victorian poems.įor a good edition of Emily Brontë’s complete poems, the Penguin edition The Complete Poems (Classics) is the one to get. You’re probably detecting a theme, or a few themes, by now: love, loss, and sorrow. Have drenched the grass by night and day Īnd from that we turn to a slightly more famous Brontë poem, about lost love:
What winter floods, what showers of spring
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