Patmore

Patmore, Coventry Kearsey Deighton, was born in 1823. His father, P. G. Patmore, was author of Literary Reminiscences. From 1847 till 1868 Patmore was on the staff at the British Museum. Since that time he lived in retirement in Sussex. In 1844 he published some poems, and in 1850 contributed to the Pre-Raphaelite Germ. In 1853 appeared Tamerton Church Tower and Other Poems, and in the following years the first part of the poem which was published as a whole in 1866 as The Angel in the House. In 1877 The Unknown Eros and Other Odes was issued. He died in 1896.