by John Holloway
Coventry Patmore , in his criticism, often anticipates what we like to think of as the modern manner, notably in his comments on Donne. His poetry, too, John Holloway suggests, ' displays a good deal of Donne's exploring subtlety, his close yet unforced argumentation '; and yet the two poets, ' besides being somewhat alike, are also profoundly different.'
This talk was prompted by J. C. Reid 's recent book, The Mind and Art of Coventry Patmore.