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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Coventry Patmore (1823–1896)

Patmore, Coventry Kearsey Dighton. An English poet; born at Woodford, July 23, 1823; died at Lymington, Nov. 26, 1896. He wrote: ‘The Angel in the House’ (4 parts, 1854–62; 7th ed. 1877); ‘The Unknown Eros’ (1877); ‘Amelia’ (1878); ‘Religio Poetæ’ (1893); ‘The Rod, the Root, and the Flower’ (1895); also ‘Principle in Art, and Other Essays’ (1889). (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).