“All the love and joy that a man has ever received in perception is laid…” — Coventry Patmore

“All the love and joy that a man has ever received in perception is laid up in him as the sunshine of a hundred years is laid up in the bole of the oak.”

Imagining remembered happiness as something stored permanently within the self · The Rod, the Root, and the Flower

Coventry Patmore

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…

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