The Complete Poetry of Emily Brontë (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Visionary Victorian Lyrics of Death, Faith, Liberty, and the Yorkshire MoorsBy Emily Brontë
Length7h 28m
About this audiobook
The Complete Poetry of Emily Brontë gathers the fierce, visionary lyrics through which Brontë fashioned an imaginative world as compelling as the moors of Wuthering Heights. These poems range from metaphysical meditations on death, liberty, faith, and endurance to dramatic fragments associated with the Gondal saga she created with her siblings. Written in a style at once austere and passionate, they stand within Romantic and early Victorian traditions while resisting both through their stark inwardness and elemental power. Emily Brontë, born in 1818 in Yorkshire, lived a brief and intensely private life shaped by rural isolation, family bereavement, and the extraordinary literary culture of the Brontë household. Her experiences on the Haworth moors, her imaginative collaboration with Anne, and her resistance to conventional social and religious consolations all inform the poetry's brooding grandeur and spiritual independence. This collection is essential for readers who know Brontë only as the author of Wuthering Heights, as well as for students of nineteenth-century literature. It reveals a major poetic intelligence: severe, musical, unsentimental, and profoundly alive to the struggles of the soul.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenrePoetry
Length7 hrs 28 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 7, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Complete Poetry of Emily Brontë (Annotated)
26The Old Stoic
2Introduction
27A Little While, a Little While
3Author Biography
28The Bluebell
4Historical Context
29Loud Without the Wind Was Roaring
5Synopsis (Selection)
30Shall Earth No More Inspire Thee
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6Faith and Despondency
31The Night-Wind
7Stars
32‘Aye—There It Is! It Wakes To-Night
8The Philosopher
33Love and Friendship
9Remembrance
34The Elder's Rebuke
10A Death-Scene
35The Wanderer From the Fold
11My Lady's Grave
36Warning and Reply
12Anticipation
37Last Words
13The Prisoner
38The Lady to Her Guitar
14Hope
39The Two Children
15A Day Dream
40The Visionary
16To Imagination
41Encouragement
17How Clear She Shines
42Stanzas
18Sympathy
43No Coward Soul Is Mine
19Plead for Me
44O God of heaven!
20Self-Interrogation
45Lord of Elbe, on Elbe hill
21Death
46Cold, clear, and blue the morning heaven
22Stanzas to——
47Tell me, tell me, smiling child
23Honour's Martyr
48High waving heather 'neath stormy blasts bending
24Stanzas
49The night of storms has past
25My Comforter
50I saw thee, child, one summer day
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