Coventry Patmore — a remark

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“I have written little, but it is all my best; I have never spoken when I had nothing to say, nor spared time or labour to make my words true.”

Summing up his ideal of restraint, craftsmanship and fidelity to what he believed worth saying · Preface to collected Poems, 1886

About Coventry Patmore

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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