The Pemberley Poems - E-book - ePub

This book of thirty-one poems is based on the assumption that Darcy wrote poetry to Elizabeth Bennet from the time he first met her, to long after their marriage. This assumption seems reasonable in the light of a conversation in Chapter 9 of Pride and Prejudice, in which Darcy says: "I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love." The poems, along with the short prose summaries which introduce each chapter, retell the story of Pride and Prejudice through the poetry which Darcy's wrote to Elizabeth. This book began as a novelette entitled Poet of Pemberley.
Later, the poems, along with many others, were offered separately in an anthology that linked them to Pride and Prejudice in a book entitled The Pemberley Poems (this book). Recently, Poet of Pemberley was developed into a full-length novel entitled Pride and Poetry, which includes all the best poems in this volume and many others set in the context of a story in which a Darcy-like character called Lacy struggles with pride, prejudice, love and poetry.