LAST THINGS by Janet Gezari ( 9780199543298 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

LAST THINGS
EMILY BRONTE'S POEMS

By:

Janet Gezari

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0199543291

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9780199543298

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Publisher:

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

24 July, 2008

Pages:

198

Description:

Emily Bronte's poetry is more often celebrated than read. This book reinstates her poems at the heart of Victorian writing while underlining their enduring relevance for readers today. For admirers of Wuthering Heights, Last Things brings the emotions and concerns of the novel into sharper focus by relating them to the poems.

Synopsis:

Emily Bronte's poems are more frequently celebrated than read. Ironically, their very uniqueness and strangeness have made them less interesting to current feminist critics than other poetry written by Victorian women. This much-needed study reinstates Emily Bronte's poems at the heart of Romantic and Victorian concerns while at the same time underlining their enduring relevance for readers today. Last Things presents the poems as the achievement of a powerfully independent mind responding to its own inner experience of the world while seeking always an abrogation of human limits compatible with a stern morality. Although the book does not discuss all of Bronte's poems, it seeks to be comprehensive by undertaking an analysis of individual poems, the progress she made from the beginning of her career as a poet to its end, her poetical fragments and her writing practice, and her motives for writing poetry. Last Things also brings the emotions and concerns that inform Wuthering Heights into sharper focus by relating them to the poems.

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6 black-and-white halftones

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Oxford University Press

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