Abstract
This article examines the influence of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre on the novel, Wilding Graft (1948) by the disabled Cornish twentieth-century novelist and poet Jack Clemo (1916–94). Clemo’s life will be considered before turning to the influence on him of first Emily Brontë and then Charlotte Brontë. The importance of landscape and religion will be considered in these novels. It will be argued that these themes are central to all three novels. This article will then turn to an examination of the poems Clemo wrote about the Brontë sisters: first Clemo’s two poems about Emily Brontë and one called ‘Haworth Keys’, then his two poems about Charlotte Brontë and finally his single poem about Anne Brontë. Particular attention will be paid to Clemo’s assessments of the three Brontë sisters’ works and his attitudes to them.
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