TY - BOOK ID - 78143278 TI - Selected poems AU - Brontë, Anne AU - Davies, Stevie AU - Brontë, Charlotte AU - Brontë, Emily PY - 2012 SN - 1283845326 1136068740 0203446054 9781136068744 9780203446058 9781136068829 9781136068904 9780415940894 9780415940900 0415940893 0415940907 1136068821 PB - Hoboken Taylor and Francis DB - UniCat KW - English poetry KW - Authors, English UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78143278 AB - Although the Brontës have long fascinated readers of fiction and biography, their poetry was all too little known until this pioneering selection by Stevie Davies, the novelist and critic. Charlotte (1816-1855) is certainly a competent poet, and Anne (1820-1849) developed a distinctive voice, while Emily (1818-1848) is one of the great women poets in English. Read together with their novels, the poems movingly elucidate the ideas around which the narratives revolve. And they surprise us out of our conventional notions of the sisters' personalities: Emily's rebelliousness, for exampl ER -