biography
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Patmore, Coventry (Kersey Dighton)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1823–96)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Woodford, Essex, SE England, UK. He was assistant librarian at the British Museum, and associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His major work, The Angel in the House (1854–62), describing married love, was followed by the death of his wife Emily in 1862, and his conversion to Catholicism under the influence of Marianne, who became his second wife. Thereafter he wrote mainly on mystical or religious themes, as in the Unknown Eros (1877). |
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