It contains all of her poems plus very helpful background information and annotations. The next poem is perhaps the shortest (though hardly the sweetest) of all of Emily Brontë’s poems.įrom the sun to a summer’s evening – this final poem sounds a familiarly sorrowful note.Ĭontinue your Victorian odyssey with our facts about the Brontë sisters and we have more great Victorian verse in this collection of classic short Victorian poems.įor a good edition of Emily Brontë’s complete poems, the Penguin edition The Complete Poems (Classics) is the one to get. Among these were Emilys Wuthering Heights (1847) regarded by many at the. You’re probably detecting a theme, or a few themes, by now: love, loss, and sorrow. The sisters went on to write and publish some of the most famous works of the time. In 1847, Emily published her only novel, Wuthering Heights, as two volumes of a three. Have drenched the grass by night and day Īnd from that we turn to a slightly more famous Brontë poem, about lost love: It was this that drove them to begin their first professional novels. What winter floods, what showers of spring
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