The Pemberley Poems: A Tribute to Pride and Prejudice

This little book of thirty-one poems is based on the assumption that Darcy wrote poetry to Elizabeth Bennet from the time he first met her, and throughout their tempestuous relationship. 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.” I have taken the liberty of developing this side of Darcy’s character and attempting to write the poems that he might have written in the course of his relationship with Elizabeth. I offer them to you in the hope that they will add something to your enjoyment of the world of Pride and Prejudice, and even that you might appreciate some of them in their own right.