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Biographical note: Emily Jane Brontė (1818–1848) was a British novelist and poet, famous for her only novel Wuthering Heights, a classic of English literature. Emily was the second eldest of the three surviving Brontė sisters. Emily is also a significant poet and published her work under the male pen name of Ellis Bell. Like her brother, she tragically developed tuberculosis and died aged 30 in 1848.
Biographical note: Chris Emery was born in Manchester in 1963 and studied painting and printmaking in Leeds. He is Publishing Director of Salt in Cambridge, England. His work has appeared in numerous journals including The Age, Jacket, Magma, Poetry London, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, PN Review and The Rialto. A first full-length collection, Dr. Mephisto (Arc Publications, 2002), his latest collection is Radio Nostalgia (Arc Publications, 2006). He is also the author or a bestselling writer's guide, 101 Ways to Make Poems Sell (Salt Publishing, 2006). He lives in Great Wilbraham with his wife, three children and various other animals.
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EAN13: 9781844715572
ISBN: 9781844715572
Author: Emily Brontü
Title: The Visionary and Other Poems
Series: Salt Pocket Classics
Product class: BB
Language: eng
Audience: General/trade
BIC subject category: CTCD1
Publisher: Salt Publishing
Pub date: 01-Apr-09
Extent: 80pp
Height: 146 mm
Width: 114 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight: 120 gms
Supplier: Gardners Books
Supplier: Ingram Book Group
Supplier: Inbooks (James Bennett)
Availability: IP
Price: GBP 9.99
Price: USD 14.95
Rights: World
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description/annotation: Emily Brontë’s poetry was published under the male pseudonym of Ellis Bell, in order to avoid the prejudice against women writers. This new selection gathers poems from her first collection (a collaboration with her sisters, Charlotte and Anne) with works published after her death, it offers readers an insight into one of the nineteenth century’s most important lyrics poets.
Main description: Emily Brontë’s poetry was published under the male pseudonym of Ellis Bell, in order to avoid the prejudice against women writers. This new selection gathers poems from her first collection (a collaboration with her sisters, Charlotte and Anne) with works published after her death, it offers readers an insight into one of the nineteenth century’s most important lyrics poets.
Brontë’s poetry is filled with gothic romance and elemental forces, it is emotionally charged, even turbulent, filled with spiritual bliss and unsublimated desires. Had she lived longer, her poetry may well have superceded the popularity of her novel, but she was dead at thirty, and we are left with the tantalising legacy of these exquisitely composed lyrics.
Selected by Chris Emery and published to coincide with National Poetry Month, April 2009.
Table of contents:
Faith and Despondency
Stars
The Philosopher
Remembrance
A Death-Scene
Song
Anticipation
The Prisoner
Hope
A Day Dream
To Imagination
How Clear She Shines
Sympathy
Plead For Me
Self-Interrogation
Death
Stanzas To ———
Honour’s Martyr
Stanzas
My Comforter
The Old Stoic
‘Shall earth no more inspire thee’
The Night-Wind
‘Ay — there it is! it wakes to-night …’
Love and Friendship
The Elder’s Rebuke
Warning and Reply
Last Words
The Lady to Her Guitar
The Visionary
Encouragement
‘Often rebuked, yet always back returning …’
‘No coward soul is mine …’ View excerpt as PDF:  Click here to view a sample (64 KB)
Excerpt from book:
‘No coward soul is mine …’
No coward soul is mine,
No trembler in the world’s storm-troubled sphere:
I see Heaven’s glories shine,
And faith shines equal, arming me from fear.
O God within my breast,
Almighty, ever-present Deity!
Life — that in me has rest,
As I — undying Life — have power in thee!
Vain are the thousand creeds
That move men’s hearts: unutterably vain;
Worthless as withered weeds,
Or idlest froth amid the boundless main,
To waken doubt in one
Holding so fast by thine infinity;
So surely anchored on
The steadfast rock of immortality.
With wide-embracing love
Thy spirit animates eternal years,
Pervades and broods above,
Changes, sustains, dissolves, creates, and rears.
Though earth and man were gone,
And suns and universes ceased to be,
And Thou were left alone,
Every existence would exist in Thee.
There is not room for Death,
Nor atom that his might could render void:
Thou — thou art Being and Breath,
And what thou art may never be destroyed.
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