The Poems of Emily Bront�

by Emily Brontë, Derek Roper, Edward Chitham

Overview

Emily Brontë's achievement as a poet has been eclipsed by her masterpiece, Wuthering Heights. The Poems of Emily Brontë is the first edition to appear with full scholarly apparatus, and to preserve the writer's original (sometimes unorthodox) presentation and revisions. With no manuscript of Wuthering Heights extant, this edition of her sometimes undervalued poetry gives the reader the rare chance of seeing the writer's creative mind at work. Recreating the literary context of the poems, this edition also takes into account recent critical insights. The enlightening introduction and commentary place the poems in their literary context, and a large number of echoes and parallels from Scott, Byron, Moore, and other authors are identified.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198126416
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/14/1996
Series:	|c OET |t Oxford English Texts
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	8.81(w) x 5.75(h) x 0.89(d)
Lexile:	1430L (what's this?)

About the Author

Emily Brontë was born in 1818, the daughter of a curate. She was the most enigmatic of the three famous novelist sisters. Losing her mother very early in her life and following her elder sister Charlotte to school, she found life away from the Haworth parsonage extremely hard. Her time as a teacher at Law Hill School near Halifax was similarly trying. Homesickness drew her back to the moors and the life of a reclusive author. It was there, in 1848, that she died of tuberculosis just months after her brother Branwell. Few of her papers survive and her reputation is based on a few surviving poems and one novel, Wuthering Heights.