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The Unknown Eros

The Unknown Eros

Patmore, Coventry

Paperback

CatholicismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1971285099
ISBN13: 9781971285092
Publisher: Stabat Mater Press
Published: Oct 14 2026
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.37 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English

Coventry Patmore is remembered, when he is remembered at all, as the Victorian who versified the happy marriage. The Unknown Eros shows how little that description covers. Its odes, written in an irregular, freely rhymed verse of the poet's own devising, follow human love to the point where it begins to point beyond itself. A widower speaks in The Toys and The Azalea; a lover waits out the days in The Day After To-morrow; the soul, as Psyche, answers her divine suitor in the great dialogues of the second book, where marriage, virginity, and pain are all treated as ways into the same mystery. Our Lady is honoured at length in The Child's Purchase. Running through the whole is Patmore's severe and unfashionable verdict on an England he believed was spending its inheritance.

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