zaterdag 16 oktober 2010

Emily Bronte Inspirational Poem: "To Imagination"
Most Emily Bronte poems are melancholy, yet this one is not, if you take the author's view. Life may be hard and dreary, but the imagination sets us free. Though skeptical of its efficacy, still the poet returns to the land of imagination again and again, and ever finds there joy. This beautiful Emily Bronte poem is ready to entertain. There is no need to download the audio poem. Just click and listen to Emily Bronte's dedication to the imagination. For after all, the author of Wuthering Heights, must have had quite an imagination brewing in her heart and mind. And hear more audio poems at the Audio Poems Library.
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Mad About the Brontës

Mad About the Brontës

For her new book, Jolien Janzing travelled to the English village where the Brontë sisters lived and wrote their novels.

There are some classics which simply never lose their charm. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, for example, or Wuthering Heights by her sister, Emily, which are still being published in no less than twenty-six languages. And it’s not just the Brontë sisters’ books which continue to sell like cookbooks; the Brontë Parsonage Museum in their native town of Haworth continues to welcome a steady stream of visitors. If anyone should doubt, the Brontës are still alive and kicking!

Tales of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal - A Review

Tales of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal - A Review

Brontë-wise, Tales of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal is definitely one of the stellar Brontë releases of the year. Not just for making the juvenilia accessible to all sorts of readers and not just the scholar kind, but also because Christine Alexander is in charge of the edition and if anyone knows anything about juvenilia, then that is Christine Alexander.