Brontë Poems. Listen and bid

A poem by Emily Brontë, To Imagination, appears on the Sunday edition of the BBC Radio 4 program, Poetry Please:

Poetry Please
Sunday 15 April 2007 1630
(Rpt on Saturday 21 April 2330)

This week poems about writing poetry and being a poet, including works by Emily Bronte, Sophie Hannah and RS Thomas. Readers: Adjoa Andoh, Cian Murchu and Trevor Peacock.

You can listen to the program here (for one week only).

To Imagination was one of the poems that Emily chose for the 1846 edition of the Poems of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. A first edition (but in the re-release of 1848 by Smith, Elder & Co.) is being auctioned off in Texas:

Heritage Auction Galleries
2007 April Books, Manuscripts & Autographs Grand Format Auction - Dallas, TX. Auction #658.

Session 3 (Lots 25578-25852) - 1:00 pm Dallas, TX time, Tuesday, April 17, 2007.
Lot: 25654

Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell [pseudo. Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte]: Poems. (London: Smith, Elder and Company, 1846 [1848]), first edition, second state, 165 pages, old rebind in half calf binding with marbled boards by Anker Kyster, gilt titles and decoration, floral patterned endpapers, segments of original green cloth binding including spine bound in back, 16mo (4.5" x 6.75"), lacking tipped-in errata slip at front and 16-page publisher's catalog at rear, minor wear and light scuffing, text lightly tones, two small bookplates on the inside front cover, else very good condition. The initial print run was for 1,000 copies, initially with the title page imprint of Aylott and Jones. Virtually no copies sold and the remaining copies were sold to Smith, Elder and Company who reissued them a few years later with new covers and title page. Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000.

Categories: Audio-Radio, Brontëana, Poetry