Coventry Patmore, 1823-1896. British author

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Coventry Patmore was a librarian by profession and a celebrated lyricist who wrote some of the most enduring nineteenth-century religious poetry in English. Among Patmore’s well-known poems are “The Toys,” “A Farewell,” “If I were Dead,” “Departure,” and “Auras of Delight.”

Coventry Patmore to unidentified person [n.y.]: Oct. 15. 1 item (1 p.) ALS. H. Buxton Forman to Mr. Slater 1890: Feb. 18. 1 item (1 p.) ALS. Original illuminated title page by Bertha Patmore for Henry Patmore’s Poems 1 item.

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