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LAST THINGS This page intentionally left blank Last Things Emily Bront¨e’s Poems JANET GEZARI 1 1 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxfordox26dp OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwidein Oxford NewYork Auckland CapeTown DaresSalaam HongKong Karachi KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Nairobi NewDelhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto Withofficesin Argentina Austria Brazil Chile CzechRepublic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore SouthKorea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress intheUKandincertainothercountries PublishedintheUnitedStates byOxfordUniversityPressInc.,NewYork ©JanetGezari2007 Themoralrightsoftheauthorhavebeenasserted DatabaserightOxfordUniversityPress(maker) Firstpublished2007 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, withoutthepriorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress, orasexpresslypermittedbylaw,orundertermsagreedwiththeappropriate reprographicsrightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproduction outsidethescopeoftheaboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment, OxfordUniversityPress,attheaddressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisbookinanyotherbindingorcover andyoumustimposethesameconditiononanyacquirer BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Dataavailable TypesetbyLaserwordsPrivateLimited,Chennai,India PrintedinGreatBritain onacid-freepaperby BiddlesLtd.,King’sLynn,Norfolk ISBN978–0–19–929818–1 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 ForSamandVanessa Shelivesonamoorinthenorth. Shelivesalone. Springopenslikeabladethere. AnneCarson,‘TheGlassEssay’ 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 Bronte¨s, I have an immediate debt to the scholars who have come beforeme.TheyincludeMargaretSmith,whosemagesterialeditionof CharlotteBronte¨’slettershas become indispensable,and Juliet Barker, whosebiographyhasmadesomuchnewinformationaboutthelivesof theBronte¨savailable.IamgratefultoConnecticutCollegeforresearch grants supporting this project and to the American Bronte¨ Society and Theresa Connors, who invited me to address an enthusiastic and informedaudienceattheNewYorkmeetinginthespringof2003,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,WillardSpiegelman,ChristopherRicks,andVanessaGezari. IamgratefultoOxfordUniversityPressforitsdedicationtotheBronte¨s, toAndrewMcNeillieforhissupportforthisproject,andtothepress’s tworeaders,ChristineAlexanderandAlisonChapman,whoconfirmed mysenseofwhatIwasdoingandprovidedgenuinelyhelpfulcriticism. AversionofChapter3appearedinELH in1999. ThepublisherswishtothanktheBronte¨ParsonageMuseumLibrary and the British Library for permission to reproduce holograph manu- scripts in theircollections,and Faber and Faber Ltd. (UK and World) and Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, LLC (US) for permission to reprint ‘Emily Bronte¨’ from Collected Poems by Ted Hughes. Copyright 2003 byTheEstateofTedHughes.Althougheveryefforthasbeenmadeto establishcopyrightandcontactcopyrightholderspriortoprinting,the publishers would be pleased to rectifyany omissions or errors brought totheirnoticeattheearliestopportunity. This page intentionally left blank Contents ListofFigures x ANoteonTexts xi 1. AndFirst 1 2. LastThings 8 3. Fathoming‘Remembrance’ 41 4. OutcomesandEndings 59 5. Fragments 79 6. TheFirstLastThing 106 7. PosthumousBronte¨ 126 Notes 151 Bibliography 169 Index 179
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