Patmore, Coventry : (1823-96), English poet who appreciated metaphysical poetry.
... Sri Aurobindo - The Poet COVENTRY PATMORFS CHARACTERISATION OF THE POETIC PHRASE* Three Illustrations from Savitri Coventry Patmore distinguishes the poetic phrase under three heads: piquancy, felicity, magnificence. And he remarks that the supreme phrase of poetry mingles all these qualities in various measures. Let us try to define the terms... the vision: it has an overwhelming loveliness rather than a stimulating or a delighting one, it is a bold lavishness though what is lavished is yet well-organised. We may broadly illustrate Patmore's classification with three brief examples from Sri Aurobindo's Savitri For piquancy, take: God shall grow up while the wise men talk and sleep. For felicity, mark: All can be... physical world and make it rich with a wide and wonderful communion, a manifold infinite oneness. To approach and call into ourselves and treasure as our delight a Godhead conceived and felt as what Patmore in a magnificent phrase of his own has termed a "crimson-throbbing Glow"—to do this is to make possible God's incarnation in each of us, to do this is to bring the God-touch that can do all and to ...
... nothing" would be replaced by the flat and almost facetious "Meaning a nullity". I shall now point your attention to some other modes of kindling Page 109 to the poetic wonder. Coventry Patmore — who perhaps has not received the praise which he deserves and which perhaps his very name shows him as desiring ("Pat more") — distinguishes the poetic phrase under three heads: piquancy, felicity ...
... hopes relating to her Ashram of today. Your red sari in the vision is symbolic of the living expression you are seeking of your inmost heart - that "crimson-throbbing glow" (your fellow-Catholic Coventry Patmore's words) in which dreams of the Ideal bum and beat. Your meeting your brother William in this vision is not surprising, for behind his physical and mental limitations in the present life is his ...
... the achievement of the seventeenth-century "Metaphysicals", in order to add some thing about them to your Future Poetry.... There is another gap also, perhaps as serious: there is nothing about Coventry Patmore, Francis Thompson and Alice Meynell. And one other name—not belonging to either group but verging on the mystical domain—is worth inclusion: Christina Rossetti. Perhaps something on Gerard Manly ...
... when he compares this difference to the difference of his approach as between Lycidas and Paradise Lost . His temperamental turn is shown by his special appreciation of Francis Thompson and Coventry Patmore and his response to Descent and Flame-Wind and the fineness of his judgment when speaking of the Hound of Heaven and the Kingdom of God , its limitation by his approach towards Paradise ...
... before man as the highest spiritual ideal to be realised in life. This dynamic divine union is not only a "simple and perceived contact of the substance of the soul with that of the Divine", as Coventry Patmore describes "the most perfect form of contemplation", but it is also a constant union and communion between the transmuted substance of the individual body with the infinite luminous substance ...
... when he compares this difference to the difference of his approach as between Lycidas and Paradise Lost. His temperamental turn is shown by his special appreciation of Francis Thompson and Coventry Patmore and his response to Descent and Flame-Wind and the fineness of his judgment when speaking of the Hound of Heaven and the Kingdom of God, its limitation by his approach towards Paradise ...
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