No Bliss like Emily's Poetry, Please

A couple of poetry collection books recently published feature Emily Bronté's poems:

No Bliss Like This: Five centuries of love poetry by women
by Jill Hollis (Ed.)
ISBN 9781845291662
Constable & Robinson

The work of women poets is often overlooked in anthologies, and collections of love poetry are no exception. This delightful and highly original collection shows that on the subject of romantic and sexual love women can be just as eloquent as men - if not more so.

Here, the bitter and the sweet mingle as women from the last five hundred years write about jealousy, fickleness, exhilaration, the pain of parting and the transience of love. Revealed is poetry which has been largely invisible since the fifteenth century; surprises from women better known for other things, like Elizabeth I and E. Nesbit; classics old and new from names including Margaret Atwood, Wendy Cope, Anne Sexton, Carol Ann Duffy, Erica Jong, Amy Lowell, Stevie Smith, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton, Adrienne Rich, Katherine Mansfield, George Eliot and Dorothy Parker.

The poems of Emily Brontë included are Silent is the House (extract)(i.e. The Visionary) and Love and Friendship.

The other book is:
Love Please!

Edited by Professor A. D. P Briggs
ISBN: 0752848909
Orion Books

A collection of poems on love, illustrated with beautiful watercolour paintings, in an attractive gift format.

From Chaucer to Emily Brontë, John Donne to John Betjeman, Christina Rossetti to Stevie Smith - here is a collection of poems which is sensuous, passionate and erotic. They have been taken from the whole range of verse in English, from the Middle Ages to the present day.

New edition: January 2007 (first published in 2001)

Categories: Books, Emily Brontë, Poetry