Talk:Coventry Patmore
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[edit]What are your views on his poem "The toys"? What do you think is the central theme of this poem? In addition, what devices does he make use of to achieve his purpose? If you have any views, please email for a discussion with me. mysticalcrystal22@hotmail.com
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[edit]The laudatory second paragraph of the evaluation section ("His best work is found in the volume of odes called The Unknown Eros, which is full not only of passages but entire poems in which exalted thought is expressed in poetry of the richest and most dignified melody. Spirituality informs his inspiration; the poetry is glowing and alive. The magnificent piece in praise of winter, the solemn and beautiful cadences of "Departure," and the homely but elevated pathos of "The Toys," are in their manner unsurpassed in English poetry. His somewhat reactionary political opinions, which also find expression in his odes, are perhaps a little less inspired, although they can certainly be said to reflect, as do his essays, a serious and very active mind. Patmore is today one of the least known but best-regarded Victorian poets.") has no references to support the POV expressed in "richest," "glowing" and "unsurpassed." Contrast this to the scorn his best-known work ("The Angel in the House") got and gets (see http://www.yorku.ca/dlatham/files/LathamSpr12.pdf). 04:29, 21 October 2013 (UTC)Kdammers (talk) 04:54, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
I also think it worth mentioning that (at least according to Latham), Patmore burned every copy of his books of poems that he could get a hold of , preferring instead to be represented by a book of short, presumably pithy, aphorisms.Kdammers (talk) 04:54, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
Text, including the effusive passage quoted by Kdammers above, seems to derive from an old Britannica article (Google Books). Maybe we should just mark this with the "incorporates text from public domain" warning. Swinburner (talk) 07:35, 27 October 2017 (UTC)
Non-poetry achievements
[edit]There is almost nothing about his involvement in the Brotherhood and his prose work, which Latham, p. 11 ( http://www.yorku.ca/dlatham/files/LathamSpr12.pdf ), says attracted Yeats and Heaney.Kdammers (talk) 04:35, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
Lede OK
[edit]You're asking us to extend the lede. I can't see anything important missing in the lede. It is the article itself that is perhaps longer than justified for a subject of limited notability. Valetude (talk) 17:29, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
Bias
[edit]This page seems to be strangely biased. The introduction calls him "one of the least-known but best-regarded Victorian poets.". The evaluation section also seems quite biased throughout. James G Thorn (talk) 14:07, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
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