Francis Thompson was the outstanding Catholic poet of his age (with the possible exception of Hopkins). Born in Preston, he studied for the priesthood then medicine but in 1885 he went to London where he lived in the utmost destitution until his poetic gifts were discovered by Wilfred Meynell. His first volume of poems was published in 1893. A Catholic and opium addict, Thompson's most celebrated poem is the "Hound of Heaven" which appears regularly in anthologies.
- ISBN10 0826456103
- ISBN13 9780826456106
- Publish Date 25 October 2001 (first published 20 June 1979)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 October 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 552
- Language English