Celebrate National Poetry Month with Our Readers
For National Poetry Month this year, Poetry Daily decided to turn the spotlight on readers of poetry: who we know are especially important, who, through the power of their attention, collaborate in the making of a poem’s meaning and worth. Which poem, we asked all of you—in our current archive of more than two thousand poems featured on the site since it moved to George Mason University in 2018—made you think, surprised you, moved you, or changed your world just a little? |
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"On Publishing Charlotte Brontë’s Miniature Book of Poems for the First Time"
"Charlotte was very serious, as we can see in the manuscript of A Book of Ryhmes. It is likely she set out to make fair copies of verses she had already composed but, despite her best intentions, she did what every poet has done over the centuries, and made alterations and corrections. Her fair copy is marred by these changes, but she must have decided it was better to improve upon her verse than simply make it look good."
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