Last Things - Emily Brontë’s Poems

Sep 19, 2026

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Scholarly collection presented as a study of Emily Brontë’s poetry, organized with front matter and extensive research apparatus. The work includes acknowledgements, publication and rights information, and a detailed contents structure covering thematic sections such as “Last Things,” “Remembrance,” outcomes and endings, poetic fragments, and posthumous material. Supporting notes, bibliography, and an index provide a research-oriented reading path for literary analysis.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLiterature

FormatPDF

Pages196

Reading Time5 h 2 min

AccessFree to download

Contents

List of Figures

A Note on Texts

And First

Last Things

Fathoming ‘Remembrance’

Outcomes and Endings

Fragments

The First Last Thing

Posthumous Brontë

Notes

Bibliography

Index

LAST THINGS This page intentionally left blank Last Things Emily Bront¨e’s Poems JANET GEZ ARI 1 1 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 6dp Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With ofﬁces in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York © Janet Gezari 2007 The moral rights of the author have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press (maker) First published 2007 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover and you must impose the same condition on any acquirer British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Data available Typeset by Laserwords Private Limited, Chennai, India Printed in Great Britain on acid-free paper by Biddles Ltd., King’s Lynn, Norfolk ISBN 978–0–19–929818–1 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 For Sam and Vanessa She lives on a moor in the north. She lives alone. Spring opens like a blade there. Anne Carson,‘The Glass Essay’ Acknowledgements This book has been a long time in the making, and I have many obligations that will go unmentioned. Like all those who write about the Bront¨es, I have an immediate debt to the scholars who have come before me. They include Margaret Smith, whose magesterial edition of Charlotte Bront¨e’s letters has become indispensable, and Juliet Barker, whose biography has made so much new information about the lives of the Bront¨es available. I am grateful to Connecticut College for research grants supporting this project and to the American Bront¨e Society and Theresa Connors, who invited me to address an enthusiastic and informed audience at the New York meeting in the spring of 2003, where I presented a shortened version of Chapter 7 . Friends and colleagues who have read the typescript during its course of development and provided necessary advice and criticism include John Fyler, Charles Hartman, Willard Spiegelman, Christopher Ricks, and Vanessa Gezari. I am grateful to Oxford University Press for its dedication to the Bront¨es, to Andrew McNeillie for his support for this project, and to the press’s two readers, Christine Alexander and Alison Chapman, who conﬁrmed my sense ofwhat I was doing and provided genuinely helpful criticism. A version of Chapter 3 appeared in ELH in 1999 . The publishers wish to thank the Bront¨e Parsonage Museum Library and the British Library for permission to reproduce holograph manuscripts in their collections, and Faber and Faber Ltd. (UK and World) and Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, LLC (US) for permission to reprint‘Emily Bront¨e’ from Collected Poems by Ted Hughes. Copyright 2003 by The Estate of Ted Hughes. Although every effort has been made to establish copyright and contact copyright holders prior to printing, the publishers would be pleased to rectify any omissions or errors brought to their notice at the earliest opportunity. This page intentional

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What is the document’s main subject?

It presents “Last Things” within Emily Brontë’s poems and frames the material as a literary study.

How is the content organized?

The contents list structured sections, including chapters on “Last Things,” “Remembrance,” outcomes and endings, fragments, and posthumous material.

What supplementary research materials are included?

Notes, a bibliography, and an index are provided to support study and reference.

Sep 19, 2026

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