Derek Patmore

Derek Coventry Patmore (1908, London – 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.^[1]

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.^[2]

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.

References

^ L. G. Pine, ed., The Author's and Writer's Who's Who, 4th ed., 1960.
^ Sebastian, Mihail (2001). Journal, 1935-44. Internet Archive. London : Heinemann. p. 277. ISBN 978-0-434-00967-1.