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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
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
- Chapter 1
Faith and Despondency
04:01 - Chapter 2
The Philosopher
03:24 - Chapter 3
Remembrance
02:39 - Chapter 4
The Outcast Mother
02:25 - Chapter 5
That Wind, I Used to Hear
00:50 - Chapter 6
There was a Time
01:14 - Chapter 7
The Night is Darkening
00:55 - Chapter 8
Fall, Leaves
00:47 - Chapter 9
Heaven's Glory Shone
00:39 - Chapter 10
Song
01:42 - Chapter 11
Tell Me, Smiling Child
01:40 - Chapter 12
The Prisoner
05:37 - Chapter 13
The Weary Task
02:47 - Chapter 14
Shall Earth no more Inspire Thee?
01:47 - Chapter 15
Plead for Me
02:38 - Chapter 16
Self-Interrogation
02:49 - Chapter 17
Stanzas To --
01:45 - Chapter 18
The Wanderer from the Fold
02:21 - Chapter 19
The Appeal
01:07 - Chapter 20
The Old Stoic
00:57 - Chapter 21
The Visionary
02:01 - Chapter 22
Stanzas
01:36 - Chapter 23
Last Lines
02:03