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See also:PATMORE, See also:COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON (1823-1896) , See also:English poet and critic, the eldest son of See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter See also:George Patmore, himself an author, was See also:born at See also:Woodford in See also:Essex, on the 23rd of See also:July 1823. He was privately educated, being his See also:father's intimate and See also:constant See also:companion, and derived from him his See also:early See also:literary See also:enthusiasm. It was his first ambition to become an artist, and he showed much promise, being awarded the See also:silver See also:palette of the Society of Arts in 1838. In the following See also:year he was sent to school in See also:France, where he studied for six months, and began to write See also:poetry. On his return his father contemplated the publication of some of these youthful poems; but in. the meanwhile Coventry had evinced a See also:passion for See also:science and the poetry was set aside. He soon, however, returned to literary interests, moved towards them by the sudden success of See also:Tennyson; and in 1844 he published a small See also:volume of Poems, which was not without individuality, but marred by inequalities of workmanship. It was widely criticized, both in praise and blame; and Patmore, distressed at its reception, bought up the See also:remainder of the edition and caused it to be destroyed What chiefly wounded him was a cruel See also:review in See also:Blackwood, written in the worst See also:style of unreasoning abuse; but the enthusiasm of private See also:friends, together with their wiser See also:criticism, did much to help him and to See also:foster his See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent. Indeed, the publication of this little volume See also:bore immediate See also:fruit in introducing its author to various men of letters, among whom was See also:Dante See also:Gabriel See also:Rossetti, through whose offices Patmore became known to See also:Holman See also:Hunt, and was thus See also:drawn into the eddies of the pre-Raphaelite See also:movement, contributing his poem " The Seasons " to the Germ. At this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time Patmore's father became involved in See also:financial embarrassments; and in 1846 Monckton Milnes secured for the son an assistant-librarianship in the See also:British Museum, a See also:post which he occupied industriously for nineteen years, devoting his spare time to poetry. In 1847 he married Emily, daughter of Dr See also:Andrews of See also:Camberwell. At the Museum he was austere and remote among his companions, but was nevertheless instrumental in 1852 in starting the Volunteer movement. Hewrote an important See also:letter to The Times upon the subject, and stirred up much See also:martial enthusiasm among his colleagues. In the next year he republished, in Tamerton See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church See also:Tower, the more successful pieces from the Poems of 1844, adding several new poems which showed distinct advance, both in conception and treatment; and in the following year (1854) appeared the first See also:part of his best known poem, "The See also:Angel in the See also:House," which was continued in " The Espousals " (1856), " Faithful for Ever " (1860), and " The Victories of Love " (1862). In 1862 he lost his wife, after a See also:long and lingering illness, and shortly afterwards joined the See also:Roman See also:Catholic Church. In 1865 he married again, his second wife being See also:Miss Marianne See also:Byles, second daughter of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James Byles of Bowden See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, See also:Gloucester; and a year later See also:purchased an See also:estate in See also:East Grinstead, the See also:history of which may be read in How I managed my Estate, published in 1886. In 1877 appeared The Unknown See also:Eros, which unquestionably contains his finest See also:work in poetry, and in the following year Amelia, his own favourite among his poems, together with an interesting, though by no means undisputable, See also:essay on English Metrical See also:Law. This departure into criticism he continued further in 1879 with a volume of papers, entitled Principle in See also:Art, and again in 1893 with Religio poetae. Meanwhile his second wife died in 1880, and in the next year he married Miss Harriet See also:Robson. In later years he lived at See also:Lymington, where he died on the 26th of See also:November 1896.
A collected edition of his poems appeared in two volumes in 1886, with a characteristic See also:preface which might serve as the author's See also:epitaph. " I have written little," it runs; " 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. I have respected posterity; and should there be a posterity which cares for letters, I dare to See also:hope that it will respect me." The obvious sincerity which underlies this statement, combined with a certain lack of See also:humour which peers through its naivete, points to two of the See also:principal characteristics of Patmore's earlier poetry; characteristics which came to be almost unconsciously merged and harmonized as his style and his intention See also:drew together into unity. In the higher flights, to which he arose as his practice in the art See also:grew perfected, he is always See also:noble, and often See also:sublime. His best work is found in the volume of odes called The Unknown Eros, which is full not only of passages but of entire poems in which exalted thought is expressed in poetry of the richest and most dignified See also:melody. The animating spirit of love, moreover, has here deepened and intensified into a crystalline See also:harmony of earthly passion with the love that is divine and transcending; the outward manifestation is regarded as a See also:symbol of a sentiment at once eternal and quint-essential. Spirituality informs his See also:inspiration; the poetry is of the finest elements, glowing and alive. The magnificent piece in praise of See also:winter, the See also:solemn and beautiful cadences of " Departure," and the homely but elevated pathos of " The Toys," are in their various See also:manners unsurpassed in English poetry for sublimity of thought and perfection of expression. Pat-more is one of the few Victorian poets of whom it may confidently be predicted that the memory of his greater achievements will outlive all See also:consideration of occasional lapses from See also:taste and dignity. He wrote, at his best, in the See also:grand manner, melody and thought according with perfection of expression, and his finest poems have that indefinable See also:air of the inevitable which is after all the touchstone of the poetic quality. His son, See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:John Patmore (186o-1883), See also:left a number of poems posthumously printed at Mr See also:Daniell's See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford See also:Press, which show an unmistakable lyrical quality. (A. WA.)
The See also:standard See also:life of Patmore is the See also:Memoirs and See also:Correspondence (1901), edited by See also:Basil Champneys. See also E. W.
End of Article: PATMORE, COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON (1823-1896)
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