About The Author:
Emily Bronte, the sister of Charlotte, shared the same isolated childhood on the
Yorkshire moors. Emily, however, seems to have been much more affected by the
eerie desolation of the moors than was Charlotte. Her one novel, Wuthering
Heights (1847), draws much of its power from its setting in that desolate
landscape. Emily's work is also marked by a passionate intensity that is
sometimes overpowering. According to English poet and critic Matthew Arnold,
"for passion, vehemence, and grief she had no equal since Byron." This passion
is evident in the poetry she contributed to the collection (Poems by Currer,
Ellis and Acton Bell) published by