The Poetry of Brontë (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Emily Brontë
- First Published: 1846
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Literature, Poetry or poets, England or English people, Women
Critical Evaluation:
In criticism today a poem is read first as an entity in itself; difficulties in reading may be clarified by reference to the author’s other poems, his life, his other writings, his times, and the like. Exceptions to this rule are the units of a poetic sequence which are lesser entities within a greater whole. But scholarship often imposes two kinds of superior entity on a single work: its place in the author’s canon and its significance as an artifact of its time. Emily Brontë’s poems may be read simply as single works of art; when understood,...
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