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The Angel in the House 2012、12、18 The Angel in the House is a narrative poem by Coventry Patmore, first published in 1854 and expanded until 1862. Although largely ignored upon publication, it became enormously popular during the later 19th century and its influence continued well into the twentieth. The poem was an idealised account of Patmores courtship of his first wife, Emily, whom he believed to be the perfect woman. Auther ： Life and His Marriage The eldest son of author Peter George Patmore, Coventry Patmore was born at Woodford in Essex and was privately educated. He was his fathers intimate and constant companion and inherited from him his early literary enthusiasm. It was Coventrys ambition to become an artist. He showed much promise, earning the silver palette of the Society of Arts in 1838. In 1839 he was sent to school in France for six months, where he began to write poetry. On his return, his father planned to publish some of these youthful poems; Coventry, however, had become interested in science and poetry was set aside. He later returned to writing however, enthused by the success of Alfred Lord Tennyson; and in 1844 he published a small volume of Poems, which was original but uneven. In 1847 he married Emily Augusta Andrews, and by 1851 they had had two sons. Three daughters followed , before their last child, a son , was born in 1860. In 1865 he re-married, his second wife being Marianne Byles, a year later he purchased Buxted Hall in Surrey, the history of which he wrote in How I managed my Estate (1886). His second wife Marianne died in 1880, and in 1881 he married Harriet Robson from Bletchingley in Surrey (born 1840). Their son Francis was born in 1882. In later years he lived at Lymington, where he died in 1896. He was buried in Lymington churchyard His Work In 1853 he republished Tamerton Church Tower, the more successful of his pieces from Poems of 1844, adding several new poems which showed distinct advance, both in conception an