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Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore

Male : Poet & Essayist. Married Emily Augusta Andrews in 1847 (she died 1862). Became a Catholic in 1864. In same year married Marianne Caroline Byles (d. 1880). Married for third time in 1881 to Harriet Robson. He died of angina
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Woodford, Essex

Date of Birth : 1823 Date of Death : 1896 Age : 73

Other Work : Assistant in the Dept of Printed Books at British Museum
1844-1875
Poems
(1844 Edward Moxon)
Tamerton Church Tower & Other Poems
(1853 Wm Pickering)
(1854 John W Parker)
The Angel in the House : Book 1 - The Betrothal
(1854 J W Parker, London) - Anon
The Angel in the House : Book 2 - The Espousals
(1856 J W Parker, London) - Anon
(1856 Ticknor & Fields, Boston)
(1858 John W Parker. 2nd Ed)
(1860 J W Parker. 3rd Ed) - 2 vols
(1863 Macmillan) - 2 vols
(1866 Macmillan. 4th Ed with earlier poems)
(1878 George Bell. 5th Ed)
Faithful for Ever : Part 3 of Angel in the House
(1860 John W Parker & Son, London) (1861 T & F)
The Victories of Love : Part 4 of The Angel of the House
(1862 Burnham, US)
(1863 Macmillan UK)
(Ed) The Children's Garland from the Best Poets (1862 Macmillan)
Odes Not Published
(1868 PP) - Anon.
[250 copies of which most were destroyed]
(1968 PP - Facsimile Ed of 150 copies)
Nine Odes
(1870 PP)
The Children's Garland from the Best Poets
(1873 Macmillan) - John Lawson

1876-1890
The Unknown Eros & Other Odes
(1877 George Bell)
(Ed) Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) - An Autobiographical Fragment and
Biographical Notes
(1877 Geo Bell)
Amelia
(1878 PP - 20 copies)
Amelia, Tamerton Church Tower, etc
(1878 George Bell)
Poems
(1879 Geo Bell) - 4 vols
Florilegium Amantis
(Edited by Richard Garnett) (1879 Geo Bell)
(Trans) St Bernard on the Love of God (1881 C Kegan Paul) - with W C Patmore
Poems
(1886 Geo Bell) - 2 vols
How I Managed and Improved My Estate
(1886 Geo Bell) - by CKDP
Hastings, Lews, Rye and the Sussex Marshes
(1887 Geo Bell) - by CP
Poems
(1887 Geo Bell. 3rd Ed) - 2 vols
The Victories of Love and Other Poems
(1888 Cassell)
Principle in Art
(1889 Ge Geo Bello Bell)

1891 Onwards
Religio Poetae
(1893)
The Rod, the Root and the Flower
(1895 George Bell, London)
The Poetry of Pathos and Delight
(Edited by Alice Meynell) (1896 Heinemann)
Poems
(1906 Geo Bell) - Edited by Basil Champneys
The Wedding Sermon
(1911 Burns & Oates)
Principle in Art, Religio Poetae and Other Essays
(1913 Duckworth)
Courage in Politics and Other Essays 1885-1896
(1921 OUP)
Seven Unpublished Poems to Alice Meynell
(1922 Pelican Press by Francis Meynell) - 50 copies
Selected Poems of Coventry Patmore
(1931 Chatto & Windus)
Selected Verse
(1934 Burns, Oates & Washbourne)
A Selection of Poems by Coventry Patmore
(1948 Grey Walls Press)
The Poems of Coventry Patmore
(1949 OUP)
Bow Set in the Cloud : edited by Anthony Matthew
(1996 Fisher Press Pb £8.99)

READING
Basil Champneys : Memoirs & Correspondence of Coventry Patmore
(1900 Geo Bell) - 2 vols
Edmund Gosse : Coventry Patmore
(1905 Hodder & Stoughton)
Osbert Burdett : The Idea of Coventry Patmore
(1921 OUP)
Frederick Page : Patmore - A Study in Poetry
(1933 OUP)
Derek Patmore : Portrait of My Family
(1935 Cassell)
Derek Patmore : The Life & Times of Coventry Patmore
(1949 Constable)
E J Oliver : Coventry Patmore
(1956 Sheed & Ward)
J C Reid : The Mind & Art of Coventry Patmore
(1957 Routledge 35/-)
Ian Anstruther : Coventry Patmore's Angel
(1992 Haggerston Press #17.95)

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