Patmore
COVENTRY KEARSEY DIGHTON, an English poet; born in 1823. He published his first volume of poems in 1844, became assistant librarian at the British Museum, and associated himself with the pre-Raphaelite movement. His reputation as a poet was established by the publication of the four parts of "The Angel in the House" (1854-1863), which he revised in successive editions. Besides this he published "The Unknown Eros and other Odes," a poetical anthology called the "Children's Garland," a "Memoir of B. W. Proctor" a (Barry Cornwall), and several contribu- PATMOS tions to periodicals. He died in Lymington, England, Nov. 26, 1896.