Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore was born on 23 July 1823 at Woodford, then a village in Essex on the eastern edge of London, and died on 26 November 1896 at Lymington in Hampshire. During his lifetime he became one of the most distinctive, admired, mocked, and misunderstood English poets of the Victorian age. His reputation rests above all on The Angel in the House, a long poetic sequence whose title became inseparab…
“It is easy to love when we feel that we are worthy of love, impossible otherwise. A perfect intention, failing only through ignorance, is alone worthiness.”
Neighbourhood:
Devotional Poets, Love Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Longing, Tenderness
Bryan Waller Procter, known to generations of readers by the literary name Barry Cornwall, was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, on 21 November 1787, and died in London on 5 October 1874. He belonged to that broad, fascinating company of early nineteenth-century writers who stood close to the great Romantic generation without ever wholly entering its innermost circle. He was not a poet of Byron’s volcanic self-dramatization,…
“The surrounding natures must catch a portion of it, as of a portion of the sun or air, and diffuse it in their turn.”
Neighbourhood:
Death & Mortality, Love Poets, Romantic Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Wonder, Tenderness
