WRITER

Coventry Patmore

1823 - 1896

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Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (23 July 1823 – 26 November 1896) was an English poet and literary critic. He is best known for his book of poetry The Angel in the House, a narrative poem about the Victorian ideal of a happy marriage. As a young man, Patmore worked for the British Museum in London. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Coventry Patmore has received more than 135,693 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Coventry Patmore is the 6,089th most popular writer (down from 5,913th in 2019), the 4,995th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,376th in 2019) and the 560th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 140k

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  • 43.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The angel in the house
Accessible book
1854
The Unknown Eros
1878
The rod, the root, and the flower
Maxims, Roman Catholicism, matrimony
Written by a nineteenth-century British poet who was twice widowed and a convert to Roman Catholicism, this book of reflections presents religious musings about the Christian meaning of knowledge, love and marriage with rather antiquated imagery and a somewhat aggressive style. Nevertheless, there are some attractive aspects to Patmore's ideas, such as that women illustrate the love of God for the physical world he created, and that in courtship and marriage the goal of the spouses should be for each one to have high ideals about the other's real potential, and for each to desire to live up to the spouse's good opinion.
1895
The unknown Eros
1878
Poems
English poetry
1844

Page views of Coventry Patmores by language

Over the past year Coventry Patmore has had the most page views in the with 14,717 views, followed by Spanish (1,298), and French (980). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Russian (45.91%), Persian (22.57%), and Portuguese (20.65%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Coventry Patmore ranks 6,089 out of 7,302. Before him are Mariz Kemal, Robin Morgan, Katie Couric, Miklós Haraszti, Zadie Smith, and Margaret Drabble. After him are Owen Barfield, Peter Orlovsky, Aglaja Veteranyi, János Batsányi, Jakob Jakobsen, and Sigitas Geda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, Coventry Patmore ranks 78. Before him are Robert Whitehead, Guillermo Tell Villegas, Henry Wirz, Manolache Costache Epureanu, Jasper Francis Cropsey, and Mackenzie Bowell. After him are George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, Edward Augustus Freeman, William Hart, Francis Parkman, George Henry Williams, and Thomas Francis Meagher. Among people deceased in 1896, Coventry Patmore ranks 83. Before him are George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., Johannes Müller Argoviensis, William Quan Judge, Narciso Campero, Eugen Baumann, and Paul Arène. After him are Thomas Hughes, James Abbott, and Francis James Child.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Coventry Patmore ranks 4,995 out of 8,785. Before him are Zadie Smith (1975), W. H. R. Rivers (1864), Mary Peters (1939), Margaret Drabble (1939), Claude Buckenham (1876), and Dorothy Shirley (1939). After him are Owen Barfield (1898), George Gilbert Scott (1811), Sophie Monk (1979), Ingrid Newkirk (1949), Vivien Merchant (1929), and David Rose (1910).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Coventry Patmore ranks 560. Before him are Denise Levertov (1923), Thomas Traherne (1636), Hammond Innes (1913), Chris Claremont (1950), Zadie Smith (1975), and Margaret Drabble (1939). After him are Owen Barfield (1898), John Betjeman (1906), Eva Crane (1912), George Grove (1820), Ian McDonald (1960), and Margaret Oliphant (1828).

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