Psychological Perspective

Gregory, Virgil L.

doi:10.1007/978-981-13-6975-9_5

Mental Health and Social Work 2020

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-6975-9_5

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Psychological Perspective

Virgil L. Gregory¹

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“…Her father's expression of antislavery sentiment in a letter is about as close as we can get to discerning her views. 5 Might she have been gently nudging her British and American audiences to form their own self-devoted bands? How would prevalent anti-Catholic sentiment at the time have undermined such a goal?…”

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The Expiration of Commitments in Adelaide Procter's “Homeward Bound”

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2020

Victorian Literature and Culture

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It has been a long time since the poetry of Adelaide Anne Procter, a favorite of Queen Victoria, captured much interest from readers of poetry, whether they be anthology aficionados, scholars, or students. Now considered a minor poet of the period, she was nevertheless a quintessential poet activist of her day, raising money for and working with the Providence Row Night Refuge, editing and contributing to the English Women's Journal alongside the Langham Place Feminists and the Society for the Employment of Women. She published volumes of her own poems, one of which ran to as many as nineteen editions between 1858 and 1881, and her work was featured regularly in Charles Dickens's periodical Household Words. Her legacy stands as a powerful testimony to the way ideas and tastes change over time. Full of angels, Christmases, quietly suffering children, and pious nuns (she converted to Catholicism in 1851), her poetry is often dismissed as sentimental and clichéd. A glance at her forms reveals many straightforward tetrameters with expected alternating, end-stopped rhymes, an easiness that seems to ally form and content. If Adorno had ever taken the time to read her poetry, he probably would have hated it, not just for its Catholic faith and its frequent focus on sin and redemption, but for its attempt “to work at the level of fundamental attitudes,” typical of committed art. Consider these lines from her frequently anthologized “Homeless,” which asks readers to recognize that their society takes better care of animals, criminals, and commodities than of the homeless poor: For each man knows the market valueOf silk or woolen or cotton…But in counting the riches of EnglandI think our Poor are forgotten.

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The Expiration of Commitments in Adelaide Procter's “Homeward Bound”

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The Expiration of Commitments in Adelaide Procter's “Homeward Bound”

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