EMILY BRONTE: DARKNESS AND GLORY: SELECTED POEMS This book collects together Emily Bronte\'s finest poems. Includes an introduction and notes, extra poems for this edition, and a new gallery of images based on Bronte\'s work. EXTRACT FROM THE INTRODUCTION EMILY BRONTE as a poet is still neglected today. Her novel Wuthering Heights, however, remains one of the great English novels. It continues to sell, continues to be adapted for radio, theatre, film and television, continues to inspire readers and be cited by critics. Wuthering Heights has entered British culture as both a serious work in academic circles and a series of cliches in popular culture. For scholars, Wuthering Heights is a superbly crafted and atmospheric piece of fiction which takes its place beside the great works of the 19th century (Tess of the d\'Urbervilles, Middlemarch, Great Expectations, Pride and Prejudice). For feminists, Emily Bronte has been appropriated as a proto-feminist, working largely in isolation in patriarchal Yorkshire, away from the metropolitan centres of culture, yet producing fiery fiction and poetry. For the general reader, Wuthering Heights is a fabulously moody, passionate and romantic book, with a powerful sense of pace, fully rounded characters and a thrill of mystery about it. The wind whistling through the heather in Winter is indeed the atmosphere of Wuthering Heights, and also of Bronte\'s poetry. In poem after poem we find loving evocations of the moors: we hear of \'the breezy moor\' (in \"The starry night shall tidings bring\"), the \'flowerless moors\' (in \"How still, how happy! Those are words\"), and of \'the moors where the linnet was trilling/ Its song on the old granite stone\' (in \"Loud without the wind was roaring\", the most powerful of Bronte\'s moor-poems). The key element of the moors is the expanse of sky and the wind that rages across it: the wind is without doubt Bronte\'s favourite element, and is the sound that acco ...