The Night is Darkening Round Me by Emily BrontëMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Emily Brontë was just 30 years of ages when she died in 1848 from tuberculosis. She died just a year after the publication of her one and only novel Wuthering Heights. Although best known for her novel, Emily was also an accomplished poet although her work does seem to manifest a predilection with death. This selection of her poetry was published in 2015 by Penguin Classics to commemorate its 80th anniversary, one of 80 such publications and most of which are available for just 80p. This collection illustrates Brontë’s most passionate, powerful poems on death, nature’s beauty and the passage of time. Reading them aloud gives this poetry a new dynamic - follow the syntax and punctuation and you might surprise yourself how much this increases the enjoyment. Try it….
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