Victorian Critics on Patmore: The Critical Reception

"The Angel in the House." The London Review. 77 (1863): 351-354.

"Faithful Forever." The Spectator. 67 (1860): 764-766.

Norton, Mrs. "The Angel and the House and The Goblin Market." MacMillan's Magazine. 79 (1863): 124-129.

"New Poetry." Putnam's Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science, and Art. 8 (1856): 19-29.

Parker, J.W. "Poems by Coventry Patmore." The North British Review. Vol. 58 (1858): 83-92.

Twentieth-Century Criticism

Anstruther, Ian. Coventry Patmore's Angel : a study of Coventry Patmore, his wife Emily and The angel in the house. London: Haggerston Press, 1992.

Champneys, Basil. Memoirs and correspondence of Coventry Patmore. 2 vols. London, G. Bell & sons.

Christ, Carol. "Victorian Masculinity and The Angel in the House." A Widening Sphere: Changing Roles of Victorian Women. Ed. Martha Vicinus. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1977. 146-162.

Fisher, Benjamin F. "The supernatural in Patmore's poetry." �� Victorian Poetry. 34 (1996): 544-56.

Gosse, Edmund. Coventry Patmore. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1905.

Oliver, Edward James. Coventry Patmore. New York, Sheed and Ward, 1956.

Page, Frederick. Patmore, a study in poetry. London: Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1933.

Patmore, Derek. The life and times of Coventry Patmore. New York, Oxford University Press, 1949.

Reid, John Cowie. The mind and art of Coventry Patmore London, Routledge & Paul [1957].

Leslie, Shane. Studies in sublime failure. London, E. Benn limited [1932].

Weinig, Mary Anthony. Coventry Patmore. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1981.


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