It would go well, as her verses are as good as her novel.
It would go well, as her verses are as good as her novel.
She is good. A few of her poems could be considered for any selection of best poems of english language. The problem is that she is very irregular and you can easily sense some poems needed more work and lots of poems are not great stuff, only for those with curiosity to see her struggles for style and theme. In a level, she is a bit like Keats (a Keats, let put bluntly, that never achived the perfection of the odes, but with considerable capacity for beauty. You end up wondering how far would she go if lived long enough).
Also, there is a few curiosities about Emily - One we can see she is quite a good writer and Wuttering Heights was no accident. A few themes, the dark loneliness that surrounds her work, are present in her poems. She was a person with a lot of emotion to express. Also as you go, you discover her influences (mostly romantic poets such Byron or Shelley). Another, but just because you dislike Tolkien so much, there is fragments of her Grandia poems, which means a fantastic alternative world, with chronology and all. So you can add her (and Anne I think, since they created the fantasy world alltogether) as another writer that created a fictional universe a century before Tolkien "invented" fantasy.
Agreed. She is a lovely poet.
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