Derek Patmore

{{Short description|English writer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Derek Coventry Patmore''' (1908, London{{snd}}1972) was a British writer. He was the great grandson of the poet Coventry Patmore.

Patmore was educated at Uppingham School. He worked as a war correspondent in the Balkans and the Middle East, writing for the ''News Chronicle'' and the ''Daily Mail''.<ref>L. G. Pine, ed., ''The Author's and Writer's Who's Who'', 4th ed., 1960.</ref>

In 1940, having met Patmore in Bucharest, the Romanian writer Mihail Sebastian wrote in his diary that Camil Petrescu told him Patmore was a pederast.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sebastian |first=Mihail |url=https://archive.org/details/journal1935440000seba/page/277/mode/1up?q=Derek |title=Journal, 1935-44 |date=2001 |publisher=London : Heinemann |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-434-00967-1 |pages=277}}</ref>

==Works== * ''Selected Poems of Coventry Patmore'', London: Chatto and Windus, 1931. * ''Portrait of My Family'', London: Cassell, 1935. * ''I Decorate My Home'', London: Putnam, 1936. * ''Decoration for the Small Home'', London: Putnam, 1938. * ''Invitation to Roumania'', London: Macmillan, 1939. * ''French for Love'', London, 1940. * ''Balkan Correspondent'', New York: Harper, 1941. * ''Images of Greece'', London: Country Life, 1944. * ''Colour Schemes and Modern Furnishing'', London: The Studio, 1945. * ''Life and Times of Coventry Patmore'', Oxford University Press, 1949. * ''Italian Pageant'', London: Evans Bros, 1949. * ''A Traveller in Venice'', London: Methuen, 1951. * ''A Decorator's Notebook'', London: Falcon Press, 1952. * ''Dark Places of the Heart: A Novel'', London: Falcon Press, 1953. * ''Private History: An Autobiography'', 1960. * ''Canada'', London: Studio Vista, 1967. * ''D. H. Lawrence and the Dominant Male'', London: Covent Garden Press, 1970. * ''Homage to Marcel Proust'', London: Covent Garden Press, 1971.

==See also== *Bruscello

==References== {{reflist}} * Mitchell, Owens, "Room to Improve", The New York Times, January 26, 2006

== External links ==

* [https://rose.library.emory.edu/ Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library], Emory University: [http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8zr7f Derek Patmore papers, 1928-1968] {{Authority control}}

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