Brontes : three English sisters, all writers: Charlotte (1816-55), novelist; Emily Jane (1818-48), novelist & poet; & Anne (1820-49), novelist; there was also a brother, Patrick Branwell (1817-48), writer, painter, & classical scholar. The heroes & heroines of their great novels were imbued with the same emotional intensity as their own lonely & tragic personal lives.
... characters give us the sense of their being real men and women. Moreover to the Page 109 wonderful passion and poetry of his finest creations there are in English fiction, outside the Brontes and that supreme genius, George Meredith, no parallel instances. Insight into the secrets of feminine character, that is another notable concomitant of the best dramatic power, and that too Bankim ...
... shelter - my mind keeps racing towards analogous utterances. One which Saint Teresa's sense of the all-satisfying plenitude of God's eternity suggests to me at the moment is a stanza I recall from Emily Bronte. Here we have in a concentrated form a philosophical dictum swept into poetic vision with a passionate severity of what I may term intuitive thought: Though earth and man were gone, And ...
... Aurobindo tried to stretch the English language beyond its limits. It seems AE thought the same. Well, we could quote passages at one another for ever. Page 82 You quote Emily Bronte as she writes 'though earth and men were gone' etc. But what about the passage in Wuthering Heights where Catherine Earnshaw weeps in heaven and begs the angels to bring her back to Wuthering Heights... and still the high Summit at rest in white Water-spaces empty as thought. Page 98 Mention of the other Cathy brings me to your disapproval of my enrolling her creator, Emily Bronte, on my side. To counter my quotation of the lines in which she writes 'Though earth and men were gone" you ask me: "What about the passage in Wuthering Heights where Catherine Earnshaw weeps in heaven ...
... poem you want to be 'like that other Cathie' (of Wuthering Heights) and, though drawn to heaven, you have learned through love earth's prime importance. I don't fancy any 'escapism', but was Emily Bronte, creator of 'Cathie', quite oriented like you? She wrote that Page 50 stanza which holds the quintessence of her being: Though earth and men were gone. And suns and universes ...
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