Poems By Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, Now for the First Time Printed

The Bronte sisters published anonymously, in 1846, a little volume of verse with tfie title Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. This, however, was only a selection from their manuscripts, and much remained. Charlotte Bronte, in 1850, after the death of her sisters, Emily and Anne, revised their novels, Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, for a second edition. She included in this edition a few poems selected from the mass of their manuscripts. In the Preface to these volumes, dated September 19, 1850, she tells of the circumstance under which their first volume was published, and in a note to the poetical selections she apologizes for printing the poems which included some of Emilys, written when quite young and says: Usually it seems a sort of injustice to expose in print the crude thoughts of the unripe mind, the rude efforts of the unpracticed hand. This statement is equally true now, a half century and more later, but since the manuscripts have been preserved a few copies ought to be printed.