The Brontë Sisters: Selected Poems of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë
by Stevie Davies (Editor), Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë
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Although the Brontës 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. Read together with their novels, the poems movingly elucidate the ideas around which the narratives revolve. And they surprise us out show more 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. show lessTags
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Stevie Davies is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Welsh Academy, and Director Of Creative Writing at Swansea University.
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