Coventry Patmore
Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore was an English poet and literary critic. He is best known for his book of poetry The Angel in the House, a narrative poem about the Victorian ideal of a happy marriage. As a young man, Patmore worked for the British Museum in London.
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- London Borough of Redbridge
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Trending topics shown first"Holy indignation is a proof that we should do the same thing ourselves, and easy tears are a certain sign of a hard heart."
"God is the only reality, and we are real only so far as we are in His order, and He is in us."
"Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom."
"He is irrational, however well he may be able to reason, who does not clearly see that good is good and truth truth."
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1823
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Birth1896
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