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Francis Thompson

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Poet, b. at Preston, Lancashire, 18 Dec., 1859; d. in London, 13 Nov., 1907. He came from the middle classes, the classes great in imaginative poetry. His father was a provincial doctor; two paternal uncles dabbled in literature; he himself referred his heredity chiefly to his mother, who died in his boyhood. His parents being Catholics, he was educated at Ushaw, the college that had in former years Lingard, Waterton, and Wiseman as pupils. There he was noticeable for love of literature and neglect of games, though as spectator he always cared for cricket, and in later years remembered the players of his day with something like personal love. After seven years he went to Owens College to study medicine. He hated this proposed profession more than he would confess to his father; he evaded rather than rebelled, and finally disappeared. No blame, or

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Francis Thompson

English poet (1859–1907)

For other people named Francis Thompson, see Francis Thompson (disambiguation).

Francis Joseph Thompson (16 December 1859 – 13 November 1907) was an English poet and Catholicmystic. At the behest of his father, a doctor, he entered medical school at the age of 18, but at 26 left home to pursue his talent as a writer and poet. He spent three years on the streets of London, supporting himself with menial labour, becoming addicted to opium which he took to relieve a nervous problem.

In 1888 Wilfrid and Alice Meynell read his poetry and took the opium-addicted and homeless writer into their home for a time, later publishing his first volume, Poems, in 1893. In 1897, he began writing prose, drawing inspiration from life in the countryside, Wales and Storrington. His health, always fragile, continued to deteriorate and he died of tuberculosis in 1907. By that time he had published three books of poetry, along with other works and essays.

Early life and study

Thompson was born in Winckley Street, Preston, Lancashire and bapt

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FRANCIS THOMPSON

(18 December 1859 – 18 November 1907)


Francis Thompson

A look at Francis Thompson's life and work

The influence of Francis Thompson on HW

Henry Williamson and the Francis Thompson Society

Henry Williamson and Catholicism

'A First Adventure with Francis Thompson' in The Mistress of Vision

'In Darkest England' in The Hound of Heaven

In the mid 1960s HW wrote two major essays concerning the work of the metaphysical and mystic visionary poet Francis Thompson. These two essays were written for, and incorporated into, two separate limited edition commemorative volumes, each containing a single Thompson poem.

1. 'A First Adventure with Francis Thompson'

Published in The Mistress of Vision (St Albert's Press, 1966: 500 numbered copies; 2 guin