Author: Adelaide Anne ProcterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Legends and Lyrics Together with a Chapter of Verses
Author: Adelaide Anne ProcterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The Literary Year-book
Author: Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
Author: Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart
Author: Kirstie BlairPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199273944
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This study considers why and how the heart became a vital image in Victorian poetry. It argues that the intense focus on heart imagery in the period highlights anxieties about the ability of poetry to act upon its readers. It covers key poems by authors such as Tennyson and the Brownings, and contextualizes them with reference to lesser-known works.
The Bookseller
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: The London Quarterly Review
Author: London Quarterly Review
Author: The Life and Work of Adelaide Procter
Author: Gill GregoryPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429806787
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
First published in 1998, this volume follows the life and work of Adelaide Procter (1825-1864), one of the most important 19th-century women poets to be reassessed by literary critics in recent years. She was a significant figure in the Victorian literary landscape. A poet (who outsold most writers bar Tennyson), a philanthropist and Roman Catholic convert, Procter committed herself to the cause of single, fallen and homeless women. She was a key member of the Langham Place Circle of campaigning women and worked tirelessly for the society for Promoting the Employment of Women. Many of her poems are concerned with anonymous and displaced women who struggle to secure an identity and place in the world. She also writes boldly and unconventionally of women’s sexual desires. Loved and admired by her father the poet Bryan Procter, her editor Charles Dickens and her friend W.M. Thackeray, Procter wrote from the heart of London literary circles. From this position she mounted a subtle and creative critique of the ideas and often gendered positions adopted by male predecessors and contemporaries such as John Keble, Robert Browning and Dickens himself. Gill Gregory’s The Life and Work of Adelaide Procter: Poetry, Feminism and Fathers considers the career of this compelling and remarkable woman and discusses the extent to which she struggled to find her own voice in response to the works of some seminal literary ‘fathers’.