Crossword-Solution: PATMORE 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Garnett's selection from Coventry Patmore's poems, entitled _Florilegium Amantis_, could claim less excuse for his blunder than the German had.

The order of inflection that is not infraction has been explained in a most authoritative sentence of criticism of literature, a sentence that should save the world the trouble of some of its futile, violent, and weak experiments: "Law, the rectitude of humanity," says Mr Coventry Patmore, "should be the poet's only subject, as, from time immemorial, it has been the subject of true art, though many a true artist has done the Muse's will and knew it not.

Let us see him in that company where he looks noble amongst the noble; let us not look upon him in the company of the ignoble, where he looks ignobler still, being servile to them; let us look upon him with the lyrical Shakespeare, with Vaughan, Blake, Wordsworth, Patmore, Meredith; not with Baudelaire and Gautier; with the poets of the forest and the sun, and not with those of the alcove.

She seems to have undergone the inevitable dream of mourners--the human dream of the Labyrinth, shall I call it? the uncertain spiritual journey in search of the waiting and sequestered dead, which is the obscure subject of the "Eurydice" of Coventry Patmore's Odes.

Coventry Patmore's Odes Innocence and Experience Penultimate Caricature THE RHYTHM OF LIFE If life is not always poetical, it is at least metrical.