By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Hope’ is a short poem by Emily Brontë (1818-48); a poem we thought worth sharing at this time. In this poem, the author of Wuthering Heights personifies Hope, but here she is a false friend, who only seems to be interested in being with […]
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A Short Analysis of Emily Bronte’s ‘To a Wreath of Snow’
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘To a Wreath of Snow’ shows Emily Brontë (1818-48), some ten years before the publication of her sole novel Wuthering Heights (1847). Written when she was still a teenager, ‘To a Wreath of Snow’ deserves some words of analysis to illuminate the language and […]
A Summary and Analysis of Emily Bronte’s ‘Remembrance’
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Remembrance’ is one of Emily Brontë’s best-known poems. F. R. Leavis, not a critic who was ever easy to please, described it as ‘the finest poem in the nineteenth-century part of The Oxford Book of English Verse’, although he also believed it lacked the […]
A Short Analysis of Emily Brontë’s ‘Love and Friendship’
When she died in 1848, aged just 30, Emily Brontë had written just one novel, Wuthering Heights. Of course, that novel was a classic and remains one of the most popular and widely read Victorian novels. But Emily Brontë also wrote many poems. ‘Love and Friendship’ sees Emily Brontë reflecting […]
A Short Analysis of Emily Bronte’s ‘No Coward Soul Is Mine’
By Dr Oliver Tearle When Poems of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell was published in 1846, it initially sold just two copies. The authors of the poems, better known as Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, had published the volume in the hope of raising some much-needed cash, but it was […]