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 felt experience found, for instance, in Thomas Hardy’s poetry and referred to it as an ‘imaginative exercise’.