Emily Bronte

Emily Jane Brontë was born in July 1818; along with her sisters Charlotte and Anne, she is famed as a member of the greatest literary family of all time, and helped turn Haworth into a place of literary pilgrimage. Whilst Emily Brontë wrote only one novel, the mysterious and universally acclaimed Wuthering Heights, she is widely acknowledged as the best poet of the Brontë sisters – indeed as one of the greatest female poets of all time. Her poems offer insights to her relationships with her family, religion, nature, the world of work, and the shadowy and visionary powers that increasingly dominated her life.

Taking twenty of her most revealing poems, Nick Holland creates a unifying impression of Emily Brontë, revealing how this terribly shy young woman could create such wild and powerful writing, and why she turned her back on the outside world for one that existed only in her own mind.



- Title

- Copyright

- Contents

- Acknowledgements

- Preface

- 1 Smiling Child

- 2 The Silent Dead

- 3 Bursting the Fetters and Breaking the Bars

- 4 Sweet, Trustful Child!

- 5 Friendship Like the Holly-Tree

- 6 The World Within

- 7 Sweet Love of Youth

- 8 A Tyrant Spell

- 9 Thy Magic Tone

- 10 I See Heaven's Glories Shine

- 11 Come Back and Dwell with Me

- 12 Secret Pleasure, Secret Tears

- 13 Another Clime, Another Sky

- 14 We are Left Below

- 15 On a Strange Road

- 16 Vain, Frenzied Thoughts

- 17 Unregarding Eyes

- 18 The Slave of Falsehood, Pride, and Pain

- 19 Courage to Endure

- 20 A Further Shore

- Appendix A: How Did Emily Brontë Get Her Name?

- Appendix B: Emily Brontë's Devoirs

- Notes

- Select Bibliography