Isabelle Adjani, Isabelle Huppert, and Marie-France Pisier on the set of The Brontë Sisters (Les soeurs Brontë, 1979)

rip emily brontë you would’ve loved romangerri succession

L'anima fortunatamente ha un interprete, spesso inconsapevole, ma fedele: lo sguardo ~ Charlotte Brontë ~ #Buongiorno ☕👀

I get that Buzz from finding Brontë books etc !

"...lo que quieras encender en otros debe arder primero dentro de ti mismo". - Charlotte Brontë.

Jane Austen writes on the transforming power of love. In my book, Muses of a Fire, there’s an entire chapter devoted to Austen’s stories. Chapters on the Brontë sisters too (and others)! Discover the spirit of transforming love and beauty in art & stories. stonetowerpress.com/shop-2/a…

The imaginative world of Gondal in the poetry of Emily and Anne Brontë is really captivating. You get sucked into its world, its history, feel for its citizens. It is a tour-de-force of image creation too as your mind creates what you're reading. You should read it too!

Deb's (Daily) Brontë. Agnes Grey, not a classic but a first hand account of a Victorian Governess. At least she had a happy ending unlike poor Anne. #AnneBrontë

RT @wildfellheights: i’ve seen the scans online but it’s really nice to have it for myself (plus it’s also a good keepsake as a brontë scho…

High School and Undergraduate English by Clayton Burns PhD Professor James Engell of Harvard English, an email to me: “Over my more than forty years of teaching I’ve found students at all levels increasingly untouched by any formal study of grammar, rhetoric, imagery, or verbal patterns.” This is not an exclusive curriculum. COBUILD Intermediate English Grammar, COBUILD English Grammar, OALD App, Merriam-Webster online PCDE Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition; OWC Oxford World’s Classics 1. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) 2. Pride and Prejudice (PCDE) 3. The Great Gatsby (PCDE) 4. Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Annotated Edition (Penguin Modern Classics, Taylor); 1984: The Graphic Novel. Nesti 5. Gwendolen Harleth. Eliot (ed. Clayton Burns PhD from Daniel Deronda); Bradley Headstone. Dickens (ed. Clayton Burns PhD from Our Mutual Friend) 6. A Streetcar Named Desire 7. The Scarlet Letter (exclude The Custom-House) (PCDE) 8. The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, Shorter Eighth Edition 9. Heart of Darkness (PCDE), The Secret Sharer 10. Romeo and Juliet (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Arden) 11. Macbeth (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Arden) 12. Poems, Poets, Poetry. Vendler 13. Dubliners (PCDE) 14. Beloved. Morrison 15. Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) 16. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Joyce (PCDE) 17. Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries. Vendler 18. The Turn of the Screw (Norton Critical Edition); Daisy Miller; The Beast in the Jungle 19. The Custom of the Country. Wharton (PCDE); Roman Fever (Penguin, 2027) 20. Great Expectations (OWC) 21. The Age of Innocence. Wharton (Penguin Vitae) 22. The Portrait of a Lady (OWC) 23. Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Revised Arden) 24. Othello (Cambridge School Shakespeare and New Cambridge) 25. King Lear (Cambridge School Shakespeare) and The Tragedy of King Lear (New Cambridge) Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Poetry Foundation): 1, 15, 18, 30, 33, 60, 64, 65, 73, 97, 98, 104, 116, 129, 130 Emily Dickinson (Poetry Foundation): 1. How many times these low feet staggered - 2. That after Horror - that 'twas us - 3. Civilization - spurns - the Leopard! 4. There's a certain Slant of light, 5. I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, 6. It was not Death, for I stood up, 7. Safe in their Alabaster Chambers - 8. Because I could not stop for Death - 9. The Angle of a Landscape - 10. I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - 11. The Tint I cannot take - is best - 12. The Way I read a Letter's - this - 13. My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - 14. The Wind begun to rock the Grass 15. A narrow Fellow in the Grass 16. Essential Oils - are wrung - Vendler’s Poems, Poets, Poetry and Poetry Foundation: Blake: The Sick Rose, The Tyger, London Wordsworth: A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal, Tintern Abbey, Ode: Intimations of Immortality Keats: Ode to a Nightingale, On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Brontë: Remembrance Browning: My Last Duchess Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est Frost: ‘Out, Out—‘ (Audio at Poetry Foundation), (Speech: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow at Poetry Foundation), The Road Not Taken, After Apple-Picking, Design Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole, Sailing to Byzantium, The Second Coming Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Plath: Daddy Lowell: Skunk Hour Milton: Paradise Lost. Book IX (Penguin Classics) In novellas James and Tolstoy most skilled. Read out loud. James: The Turn of the Screw (Norton Critical Edition), The Beast in the Jungle, The Jolly Corner. Tolstoy: Hadji Murat. Pevear (Lermontov’s The Dream. Nabokov), The Kreutzer Sonata. Conrad: Heart of Darkness (PCDE). Joyce: The Dead. Kafka: The Metamorphosis. Bernofsky. Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (OWC  and Penguin Classics). Dickens: Master Bradley Headstone. Clayton Burns PhD (Our Mutual Friend).

The stampede into an impossible and hideous box canyon of worthless standardized tests. College Board is making Americans stupid. High School and Undergraduate English by Clayton Burns PhD Professor James Engell of Harvard English, an email to me: “Over my more than forty years of teaching I’ve found students at all levels increasingly untouched by any formal study of grammar, rhetoric, imagery, or verbal patterns.” This is not an exclusive curriculum. COBUILD Intermediate English Grammar, COBUILD English Grammar, OALD App, Merriam-Webster online PCDE Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition; OWC Oxford World’s Classics 1. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) 2. Pride and Prejudice (PCDE) 3. The Great Gatsby (PCDE) 4. Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Annotated Edition (Penguin Modern Classics, Taylor); 1984: The Graphic Novel. Nesti 5. Gwendolen Harleth. Eliot (ed. Clayton Burns PhD from Daniel Deronda); Bradley Headstone. Dickens (ed. Clayton Burns PhD from Our Mutual Friend) 6. A Streetcar Named Desire 7. The Scarlet Letter (exclude The Custom-House) (PCDE) 8. The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, Shorter Eighth Edition 9. Heart of Darkness (PCDE), The Secret Sharer 10. Romeo and Juliet (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Arden) 11. Macbeth (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Arden) 12. Poems, Poets, Poetry. Vendler 13. Dubliners (PCDE) 14. Beloved. Morrison 15. Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) 16. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Joyce (PCDE) 17. Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries. Vendler 18. The Turn of the Screw (Norton Critical Edition); Daisy Miller; The Beast in the Jungle 19. The Custom of the Country. Wharton (PCDE); Roman Fever (Penguin, 2027) 20. Great Expectations (OWC) 21. The Age of Innocence. Wharton (Penguin Vitae) 22. The Portrait of a Lady (OWC) 23. Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Revised Arden) 24. Othello (Cambridge School Shakespeare and New Cambridge) 25. King Lear (Cambridge School Shakespeare) and The Tragedy of King Lear (New Cambridge) Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Poetry Foundation): 1, 15, 18, 30, 33, 60, 64, 65, 73, 97, 98, 104, 116, 129, 130 Emily Dickinson (Poetry Foundation): 1. How many times these low feet staggered - 2. That after Horror - that 'twas us - 3. Civilization - spurns - the Leopard! 4. There's a certain Slant of light, 5. I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, 6. It was not Death, for I stood up, 7. Safe in their Alabaster Chambers - 8. Because I could not stop for Death - 9. The Angle of a Landscape - 10. I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - 11. The Tint I cannot take - is best - 12. The Way I read a Letter's - this - 13. My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - 14. The Wind begun to rock the Grass 15. A narrow Fellow in the Grass 16. Essential Oils - are wrung - Vendler’s Poems, Poets, Poetry and Poetry Foundation: Blake: The Sick Rose, The Tyger, London Wordsworth: A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal, Tintern Abbey, Ode: Intimations of Immortality Keats: Ode to a Nightingale, On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Brontë: Remembrance Browning: My Last Duchess Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est Frost: ‘Out, Out—‘ (Audio at Poetry Foundation), (Speech: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow at Poetry Foundation), The Road Not Taken, After Apple-Picking, Design Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole, Sailing to Byzantium, The Second Coming Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Plath: Daddy Lowell: Skunk Hour Milton: Paradise Lost. Book IX (Penguin Classics) In novellas James and Tolstoy most skilled. Read out loud. James: The Turn of the Screw (Norton Critical Edition), The Beast in the Jungle, The Jolly Corner. Tolstoy: Hadji Murat. Pevear (Lermontov’s The Dream. Nabokov), The Kreutzer Sonata. Conrad: Heart of Darkness (PCDE). Joyce: The Dead. Kafka: The Metamorphosis. Bernofsky. Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (OWC  and Penguin Classics). Dickens: Master Bradley Headstone. Clayton Burns PhD (Our Mutual Friend).

Americans can’t reason. All the trash is making Americans stupid. SSAT, SAT, ACT, SHSAT, NAEP, Regents—all stupid trash not based on curricula so opportunity costs are prohibitive. Have little curricula online for the tests. Turn the tests into teaching tools. Nightingale Lyric Seminar: Vowel and Consonant Chart: Look up International Phonetic Alphabet transcriptions in OALD App. Official text: A Course in Phonetics by Peter Ladefoged and Keith Johnson. Four mnemonics will mean you remember vowels: “See it fade from red to black” for front vowels: “See it fade red black”. “You influence good old father” for back vowels. “Hi town boy” for diphthongs. “Art is clear: will bear more works” for r-coloured vowels: “Art clear bear more works.” Through lyric poetry we can develop sensitivity to the 44 phonemes or distinct vowel and consonant sounds of English. Vowel chart, high to low: Front vowels: /iː/ see             /ɪ/  it /eɪ/ fade /e/ red /æ/ black (ash) Central vowels: /ə/ a (schwa)      /ʌ/ cup (wedge)    Back vowels: /uː/ you /u/ influence /ʊ/ good (upsilon) /əʊ/ old /ɑː/ father (script a) Diphthongs: /aɪ/ Hi /aʊ/ town /ɔɪ/ boy. R-coloured vowels in OALD App: Art clear bear more works. ɑːrt klɪr ber mɔːr wɜːrks. Consonant chart: Where consonants are paired horizontally, the one on the left is unvoiced and the one on the right is voiced. Categories: plosives, fricatives, affricates, liquids, nasals, glides. Classes: bilabials, velars, sibilants. Bilabials:   /p/ /b/ /m/ /w/ Velars:       /k/ /g/ /ŋ/ eng: sing Sibilants: /s/   /z/ buses; roses /ʃ/   /ʒ/ esh: lashes; ezh: rouges /tʃ/ /dʒ/ t-esh: itches; d-ezh: edges Plosives: /p/   /b/ /t /   /d/ /k /  /g/ Fricatives: /f/    /v/ /θ/   /ð/ theta: breath; eth: breathe /s/   /z/ buses; roses /ʃ/    /ʒ/ esh: lashes; ezh: rouges /h/ Affricates: /tʃ/  /dʒ/ t-esh: itches; d-ezh: edges Liquids: /l/ /r/ Nasals:    /m/ /n/ /ŋ/  eng: sing Glides: /w/ /j/ yot: yellow Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Poetry Foundation): 1, 15, 18, 30, 33, 60, 64, 65, 73, 97, 98, 104, 116, 129, 130 Emily Dickinson (Poetry Foundation): 1. How many times these low feet staggered - 2. That after Horror - that 'twas us - 3. Civilization - spurns - the Leopard! 4. There's a certain Slant of light, 5. I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, 6. It was not Death, for I stood up, 7. Safe in their Alabaster Chambers - 8. Because I could not stop for Death - 9. The Angle of a Landscape - 10. I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - 11. The Tint I cannot take - is best - 12. The Way I read a Letter's - this - 13. My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - 14. The Wind begun to rock the Grass 15. A narrow Fellow in the Grass 16. Essential Oils - are wrung - Most of the following lyric poems are in Vendler’s Poems, Poets, Poetry and in Poetry Foundation: Blake: The Sick Rose, The Tyger, London Wordsworth: A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal, Tintern Abbey, Ode: Intimations of Immortality Keats: Ode to a Nightingale, On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Brontë: Remembrance Browning: My Last Duchess Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est Frost: ‘Out, Out—‘ (Audio at Poetry Foundation), (Speech: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow at Poetry Foundation), The Road Not Taken, After Apple-Picking, Design Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole, Sailing to Byzantium, The Second Coming Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Plath: Daddy Lowell: Skunk Hour Milton: Paradise Lost. Book IX (Penguin Classics)