Emily Brontë's unique sense of the divine

America Magazine looks into poetry anthologies and, among their picks, is:

A recent anthology from Liguori Publications, Simple Graces: Poems for Meditation and Prayer, 2003, lands squarely in the category God. These are not devotional or homiletic poems, but they all have their antennae up in some way toward the divine. The anthologists, Matthew Kessler and Gretchen Schwenker (a Redemptorist and an editor at Liguori), frankly state this criterion. Some of their favorite poets—Emily Dickinson, Emily Brontë, Rainer Maria Rilke—have their unique sense of the divine. Others, like Robert Hayden, Naomi Shihab Nye and Denise Levertov, approach God slantwise, through human phenomena. Wendell Berry, Mary Oliver and Patrick Kavanagh speak more directly and familiarly. (James S. Torrens)

Emily Brontë did indeed have a 'unique sense of the divine', no doubt.

Publishers Weekly announces the arrival of Classical Comics in the US market (you can read our review of their Jane Eyre here):

U.K. publisher Classical Comics has entered the U.S. market with several full-color graphic novel adaptations of works by Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker and Charlotte Brontë, all available in either two or three text versions—each version keyed to different reading levels—in an effort to reach all possible markets. (Wendy Werris)

And C21Media obviously mentions the latest screen adaptation of Wuthering Heights in an article about ITV Global Entertainment.

Also on the distributor's scripted slate is comedy drama Boy Meets Girl (4x60'/2x90'), starring Martin Freeman (The Office, Love Actually) as a man who is struck by lightning and wakes to find himself trapped in a woman's body; and a new adaption of Wuthering Heights (2x70'). (Martin Buxton)

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