The Visionary and other Poems publications

New editions of Brontë poetry:

The Visionary and Other Poems
Author: Emily Brontë
Salt Publishing
Series: Salt Pocket Classics
ISBN: 9781844715572
Pub date: 01-Apr-09

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 Had she lived longer, her poetry may well have superceded the popularity of her novel, but she was dead at thirty, and we are left with the tantalising legacy of these exquisitely composed lyrics.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 …’

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Cottage Poems
Patrick Brontë

Publisher Dodo Press
Imprint LULU PR
ISBN: 9781409933489
Format Paperback
Publication date 01 Feb 2009
Pages 56

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard and Other Poems
Thomas Gray
Penguin
Paperback : 02 Apr 2009
Format : Paperback
ISBN: 9780141190839
Size : 111 x 181mm
Pages : 112

The English countryside has inspired some of the most exquisite and well-loved poetry ever composed in the language. This selection of verse includes, among others, Thomas Gray's reflective and moving meditation on mortality, 'Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard', the soaring beauty of Wordsworth's lines on Tintern Abbey and Keats' ode to Autumn, the deceptively simple words of Emily Brontë and the personal and evocative verse of Thomas Hardy, bringing together the greatest riches of English poetry. Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside - but it has profoundly shaped us too. It has provoked a huge variety of responses from artists, writers, musicians and people who live and work on the land - as well as those who are travelling through it. "English Journeys" celebrates this long tradition with a series of twenty books on all aspects of the countryside, from stargazey pie and country churches, to man's relationship with nature and songs celebrating the patterns of the countryside (as well as ghosts and love-struck soldiers).

Categories: Books, Cottage Poems, Emily Brontë, Poetry