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Augustan Books of Modern Poetry: Emily Brontë

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Augustan Books of Modern Poetry: Emily Brontë

by Emily Brontë

English· 00:47:44· 23 chapters
The inspirational and visionary poetry of Emily Brontë will live forever in the annals of great works of creative art. Renowned as the author of the novel "Wuthering Heights", the mystically contemplative poems of Brontë are featured in this superb collection of some of her best work. These are universally appealing poems that actively examine each and everyone's place in this life of love, loss and wonderment - the wonderment of millions of magical souls on a journey whose terminus remains obscure. Brontë writes of life and exhibits a prescient insight into a mystical universal life form - be it one of a new beginning, a replication, or a heuristic recap of a past long beyond the point of alteration.



We are most fortunate to be able to share the insight of this magnificent poet as she examines the machinations of the collective lived experience and the perception and wisdom of the nature of existence. And since the whim of an ill wind terminated too soon this brilliant soul's worldly reality, we are privileged to be able to learn of her sentiments, her hopes, her disappointments and her innermost feelings in these superb poems of a poet at the peak of prophetic ability and writing prowess.



Yet despite the dire conditions of the life that surrounded her, despite the illness, disappointment and death that was the lived reality of Emily Brontë, she maintained her faith and hope that good will indeed triumph over a seemingly bleak present. In the words of the poet, "I shall sing when night's decay / Ushers in the drearier day."

- Summary by Bruce Kachuk

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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    Faith and Despondency

    04:01
  2. Chapter 2

    The Philosopher

    03:24
  3. Chapter 3

    Remembrance

    02:39
  4. Chapter 4

    The Outcast Mother

    02:25
  5. Chapter 5

    That Wind, I Used to Hear

    00:50
  6. Chapter 6

    There was a Time

    01:14
  7. Chapter 7

    The Night is Darkening

    00:55
  8. Chapter 8

    Fall, Leaves

    00:47
  9. Chapter 9

    Heaven's Glory Shone

    00:39
  10. Chapter 10

    Song

    01:42
  11. Chapter 11

    Tell Me, Smiling Child

    01:40
  12. Chapter 12

    The Prisoner

    05:37
  13. Chapter 13

    The Weary Task

    02:47
  14. Chapter 14

    Shall Earth no more Inspire Thee?

    01:47
  15. Chapter 15

    Plead for Me

    02:38
  16. Chapter 16

    Self-Interrogation

    02:49
  17. Chapter 17

    Stanzas To --

    01:45
  18. Chapter 18

    The Wanderer from the Fold

    02:21
  19. Chapter 19

    The Appeal

    01:07
  20. Chapter 20

    The Old Stoic

    00:57
  21. Chapter 21

    The Visionary

    02:01
  22. Chapter 22

    Stanzas

    01:36
  23. Chapter 23

    Last Lines

    02:03