Poems of Emily Brontï¿½

Name: Poems of Emily Brontï¿½
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ISBN: 9780198126416

ISBN-10: 0198126417

ISBN-13: 9780198126416

Edition: 1995

Authors: Emily Brontï¿½, Derek Roper, Edward Chitham, Emily Brontï¿½

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Emily Bronte's achievement as a poet has been in part eclipsed by that of her masterpiece, Wuthering Heights, yet the poems reveal a powerful and highly individual imagination and poetic voice. The Poems of Emily Bronte is the first edition of the poetry to appear with full scholarly apparatus: based wherever possible on the manuscripts, it preserves Bronte's original (sometimes unorthodox) presentation, and records the stages of her revisions. The lack of any surviving manuscript of the novel makes this policy particularly valuable, since it offers the reader the rare chance of watching the writer's creative mind at work. Returning to the original manuscripts has achieved a more accurate…

Book details

List price: $305.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/14/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 326
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.188

Derek Roper is a former Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Sheffield

Edward Chitham is a part-time tutor in the Arts and Foundation Course and Classical Studies at the Open University. His previous books include "A Life of Emily Bronte," also published by Blackwell.



Preface


Abbreviations And Symbols


Introduction


Dates Poems and Fragments


Undated Poems and Fragments


Commentary



Emily Bront ï¿½'s Spelling



Sequence of Poems in the Manuscripts



Sequence of Poems in 1846 and 850



Editions after 1850



Gondal Records



Gondal Names and Dates



Gondal Reconstructions