Poetic touches

Nothing much to report from Brontëland today. The Boonville Daily News has an article on a recent local students' poetry recital where

There were poems from English writer Emily Brontë whose work spanned Romantic and Victorian literary ages (Sananda Sahoo)

And this is Fanhouse adding a poetic touch to a recent Minor League Baseball match:

And it looks like a true winner when you factor in the way Garcia and the White Sox seem to be drawn together as inexorably as Heathcliff and Catherine on the moors in "Wuthering Heights." (Josh Alper)

EDIT: An alert for today, January 28 on BBC2:

Antiques Road Trip Series 2

Episode 20
Antiques experts James Braxton and Thomas Plant face the final day of their North East jaunt. They travel from Keighley to Leeds in search of profitable antiques to sell at auction in Driffield, East Yorkshire. James inspects some Islamic artefacts in Bradford, whilst Thomas becomes a fan of the Brontë sisters. Will James and Thomas actually make some money at their final auction?
Series Producer Paul Tucker. Narrator Tim Wonnacott
Presenter James Braxton and Thomas Plant
Executive Producer Wendy Rattray
Fri 28 Jan 2011, 17:15

EDIT (29 January): Here you can see the Brontë-related  fragment.

Library of Clean Reads posts about Jane Eyre and a couple of other blogs review adaptations of the novel: Filmfanatic on Jane Eyre 1943 and Rosie's Chronicles on Jane Eyre 1997. Unputdownables is warming up for the Villette read-along in February. Savidge Reads discusses Wide Sargasso Sea. And finally, YouTube user poetictouchannel has uploaded a reading of Charlotte Brontës's poem Parting.

Categories: Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Poetry, Villette, Wide Sargasso Sea, Wuthering Heights