The Mind And Art Of Coventry Patmore

Author : Percy Lubbock
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267349777
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book Coventry Patmore (Classic Reprint) written by Percy Lubbock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Coventry Patmore Coventry Patmore, from the beginning of his life, to the end, through all changes of faith and fortune, was dominated by one central idea - the relation of man to woman and of woman to man. The whole character of his mind was implied in the View which he took of the mutual attitude of the sexes. It coloured every line that he wrote; it directed every step of his intel lectual progress it was the governing standard to which everything else was referred. It was an instinct in the first place, but it gradually became far more than that. Upon it was built, an. Elaborately reasoned fabric, in which was included the whole significance of art and nature and religion. It grew to be the universal symbol, the only key to all the intricacies of life. The fact that this guiding principle never failed him, that it continued to bear the accumulating weight which he threw upon it, sufficiently proves the robust purity and vigour which he brought to it. The bedrock of his nature was so stable and so normal that the most determined exaggerations could be erected on it without danger. At the bottom of all his theories there was a hard virility whose force was never relaxed; it was equally strong in his early days, when his poetry was held by the sterner sort of critics to touch the limit of all that was sentimental and insipid, and in his later, when he appeared _to many to wander adrift in a cloud of exotic and over-strained mysticism. It is this fundamental soundness which gives coherence to all his work, and which leads 11s Step by step, in a logical progression, from the morning brightness of the Angel in the House' to the secludedfervours of the Unknown Eros.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.