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Saturday, June 23, 2012

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A recently published selection of poems from the Brontës read by Miriam Margoyles and Barnaby Edwards:
The Brontës - Selected Poems
Read by Miriam Margolyes and Barnaby Edwards
Duration 88 minutes
Released 2011
Textbook Stuff
Format Unabridged MP3 Download

'The poems are often the fruit of their big gestures, their brimming hearts and earthquake heartbreaks' - Michael Schmidt

INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING POEMS

Emily Brontë: A.E. and R.C.; Death; A Death Scene; Fall, Leaves, Fall; Hope; I am the only being whose doom; If grief for grief can touch thee; Love is like the wild rose briar; The night is darkening round me; No coward soul is mine; The Old Stoic; The Prisoner; Remembrance; Song: The linnet in the rocky dells; Song to A.A.

Charlotte Brontë: The Autumn day its course has run; Life; On the Death of Anne Brontë; On the Death of Emily Jane Brontë; Parting.

Anne Brontë: Appeal; In Memory of a Happy Day in February;Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day; Lines Written at Thorp Green; To Cowper.

Patrick Branwell Brontë: Augusta; Death Triumphant;Epistle From a Father to a Child in Her Grave; Lines; The man who will not know another; Memory; Now - but one moment, let me stay; O God! while I in pleasure's wiles; O Thou, whose beams were most withdrawn; Oh, all our cares; On Caroline; Peaceful Death and Painful Life; Penmaenmawr; Thorp Green; To Sestius.

BONUS MATERIAL: Elizabeth Gaskell on Charlotte Brontë (an extract from Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell, read by Barnaby Edwards)

Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë and Patrick Branwell Brontë (four musical interludes by Howard Carter)

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