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Selected poems. With biographical note by Wilfrid Meynell

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Thompson, Francis

▪ British poet
born Dec. 18, 1859, Preston, Lancashire, Eng.
died Nov. 13, 1907, London
 English poet of the 1890s, whose most famous poem, “The Hound of Heaven,” describes the pursuit of the human soul by God.

      Thompson was educated in the Roman Catholic faith at Ushaw College, a seminary in the north of England. He studied medicine at Manchester, but not conscientiously, and began to take opium; he then went to London, where from 1885 to 1888 he lived in destitution. In 1888 the publication of two of his poems in Wilfrid Meynell's periodical, Merry England, aroused the admiration of Robert Browning. Meynell and his wife, Alice (Meynell, Alice), befriended Thompson, induced him to enter a hospital, nursed him through convalescence, and in 1893 arranged publication of a collection, Poems. Thompson is chiefly associated with rhapsodic accounts of religious experience written in a diction much influenced by 17th-century Catholic verse, though he could also produce elegant, direct, and moving short poems, such as "At Lord's," a remarkable lyric about cricket.

      From 1892 to 1896 Thompson lived near a Franciscan priory in north Wales, during which period he wrote Sister Songs (1895) and New Poems (1897). He also wrote a number of prose works, mostly published posthumously, including the essay Shelley (1909). The Works of Francis Thompson, 3 vol. (1913), was published by Meynell. Thompson died of tuberculosis.

Additional Reading
John Cowie Reid, Francis Thompson, Man and Poet (1959); John Walsh, Strange Harp, Strange Symphony (1967); Beverly Taylor, Francis Thompson (1987); Brigid M. Boardman, Between Heaven and Charing Cross (1988).

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Источник: Thompson, Francis

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  • Thompson, Francis — • Poet (1859 1907) Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006 …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • Thompson, Francis — ▪ British poet born Dec. 18, 1859, Preston, Lancashire, Eng. died Nov. 13, 1907, London  English poet of the 1890s, whose most famous poem, “The Hound of Heaven,” describes the pursuit of the human soul by God.       Thompson was educated in the… …   Universalium

  • Thompson, Francis — (1859–1907)    Poet.    Thompson was born into a Roman Catholic family in Preston, Lancashire. After an unsuccessful period in medical school, he moved to London where he lived in great poverty. He was discovered as a poet by Alice Meynell, then… …   Who’s Who in Christianity

  • Thompson, Francis — (1859 1907)    Born in Preston, Lancashire, the son of a homeopath, he was educated in the classics at the Catholic Ushaw College near Durham, then studied medicine at Owens College, Manchester. He never practiced medicine, choosing instead a… …   British and Irish poets

  • Thompson, Francis — ► (1859 1907) Poeta británico. La poesía fue para él una especie de religión. Autor de Poemas (1893) …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • THOMPSON, Francis — (1859 1907)    minor English poet remembered for his poem The Hound of Heaven (1893) …   Concise dictionary of Religion

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