“Narrowness, indeed, so far from being opposed to greatness in art, is often its condition.”
About Coventry Patmore
23 July 1823–26 November 1896
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…