Francis Thompson

Francis Thompson ( born December 18, 1859 in Preston, Lancashire, † November 13, 1907 in London) was an English poet.

Thompson studied at Ushaw College ( Durham ) Catholic theology, medicine later in Manchester. Both programs were not finish. In 1885 he went to London. His life was marked by poverty, deeply religious and his opium addiction. In Storrington Abbey ( Sussex ), he wrote most of his poems. His most famous poem is The Hound of Heaven (Eng. The Hound of Heaven ).

Appreciation

"The life of extreme deprivation and loneliness was also marked by astonishing intimacy, sensitivity and deep religious experience force. He won support and hope in faith and found in poetry a creative response to the spiritual needs. " (Franz Wöhrer )

" Francis Thompson is a poet either way, solely by the power of language, but this time the greatest and unvergänglichster he is, both because he was not only a poet of the return to nature, but the poet 's return to God, as well as because he was the poet of return to God, without ceasing to be a poet of the return to nature. That's it " ( Theodor Haecker: About Francis Thompson and language arts. In: Francis Thompson: The Hound of Heaven, transmitted by Theodor Haecker, Innsbruck 1925).

Works

  • The Life and Labours of Saint John Baptist de la Salle, 1891;
  • Health and Holiness, inlaid. v. G. Tyrell, 1905;
  • Ode to English Martyrs, 1906; Selected Poems, ed. v. W. Meynell, 1908;
  • Shelley, inlaid. v. G. Wyndham, 1909;
  • Saint Ignatius Loyola, ed. v. J. Pollen, 1909, foreword by W. Meynell, 1951;
  • A Renegade and Other Essays, 1910;
  • The Works of Francis Thompson, ed. v. Wilfrid Meynell, 3 vols, 1913;
  • Collected Poetry, 1913;
  • Essays of Today and Yesterday: eingel. v. W. Meynell, 1927;
  • Selected Poems and Prose, 1929;
  • Poems, ed. v. T. L. Connolly, 1932, revised. 1941;
  • Poems, ed. v. W. Meynell, 1937;
  • Poems. Collected Edition with a Bibliography of First Printings, 1946;
  • Literary Criticisms, ed. v. T. L. Connolly, 1948 Neuausg. 1976;
  • The Letters of Francis Thompson, ed. v. John Walsh, 1969.
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