![]() ![]() ![]() The book also includes extensive notes at the back. ![]() In the introduction, Gezari presents a brief historical survey of Emily Brontë’s poems, and details the choices and decisions which she made regarding the copy-text she used for the poems in this collection, the ordering, the amalgamation of fragments, titles, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. The editor, Gezari, seems to have performed more than satisfactory and painstaking scholarship in putting together this collection. This collection contains 182 of Emily Brontë’s extant poems, 21 of which were published in the 1846 book of poems written by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë- Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell-the names referring to their respective pseudonyms (this 1846 collection of poems is available from Project Gutenberg). (Note that the illustration on the cover is a pencil drawing of a fir-tree by Emily Brontë.) This is what waved to me the other day: The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Brontë, edited by Janet Gezari (Penguin Books, 1992). Which is why I frequently browse my favorite used-books store. ![]() Often a second-hand book would wave to me from a bookshop shelf without my meaning to look for it, like a dog in a kennel looking to be adopted. ![]()
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