See also:

• FRANCIS
• FRANCIS (FRarrcols) OF SALES, ST (1567-1622)
• FRANCIS (Lat. Franciscus, Ital. Francesco, Span. Francisco, Fr. Francois, Ger. Franz)
• FRANCIS, SIR PHILIP (174o-1818)

FRANCIS See also:

• THOMPSON
• FRANCIS THOMPSON (1860-1907)
• THOMPSON, LAUNT (1833-1894)
• THOMPSON, SIR HENRY, BART
• THOMPSON, SIR JOHN SPARROW (1844-1894)
• THOMPSON, THOMAS PERONNET (1783-1869)
• THOMPSON, WILLIAM HEPWORTH (18ro–1886)

THOMPSON (1860-1907)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English poet, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• ASHTON

Ashton, See also:

• LANCASHIRE

Lancashire, in r86o . His See also:

• FATHER

father, a See also:

• DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

doctor, became a convert to See also:

• ROMAN

Roman Catholicism, following his See also:

• BROTHER

brother See also:

• EDWARD

Edward See also:

• HEALY, GEORGE PETER ALEXANDER (1808-1894)

Healy See also:

• THOMPSON
• THOMPSON, FRANCIS (1860-1907)
• THOMPSON, LAUNT (1833-1894)
• THOMPSON, SIR HENRY, BART
• THOMPSON, SIR JOHN SPARROW (1844-1894)
• THOMPSON, THOMAS PERONNET (1783-1869)
• THOMPSON, WILLIAM HEPWORTH (18ro–1886)

Thompson, a friend of See also:

• MANNING, HENRY EDWARD (1808-1892)

Manning . The boy was accordingly educated at Ushaw See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, near See also:

• DURHAM
• DURHAM, JOHN GEORGE LAMBTON, 1ST EARL OF (1792–1840)

Durham, and subses quently studied See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine at See also:

• OWENS, JOHN (1790-1846)

Owens College, See also:

• MANCHESTER
• MANCHESTER (popularly Manchester-by-the-Sea)
• MANCHESTER, EARLS AND DUKES OF

Manchester; but he took no real See also:

• INTEREST

interest in the profession of a doctor and was See also:

• BENT
• BENT (E1. BENI)
• BENT, JAMES THEODORE (1852–1897)

bent on See also:

• LITERARY

literary See also:

• PRODUCTION (Lat. productionem, from producere, to pro-duce)

production . A See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period of friendlessness and failure (from the point of view of " See also:

• PRACTICAL

practical See also:

• LIFE

life") followed, in which he became a solitary creature who yet turned his visions of beauty into unrecognized See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse . It was not till 1893 that, after some five obscure years, in which he was brought to the lowest depths of destitution and See also:

• ILL

ill See also:

• HEALTH

health, his poetic See also:

• GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius became known to the public . Through his sending a poem to the See also:

• MAGAZINE

magazine Merrie See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, he was sought out by Mr and Mrs See also:

• WILFRID (c. 634-709)

Wilfrid See also:

• MEYNELL, ALICE CHRISTIANA (1850— )

Meynell and rescued from the See also:

• VERGE (Lat. virga, a rod)

verge of See also:

• STARVATION

starvation and self-destruction, and these See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends of his own communion, recognizing the value of his See also:

• WORK

work, gave him a See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home and procured the publication of his first See also:

• VOLUME

volume of Poems (1893) . His See also:

• DEBT (Lat. debitum, a thing owed)

debt to Mrs Meynell was repaid by some of his finest verse . The volume quickly attracted the See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention of sympathetic critics, in the St See also:

• JAMES
• JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
• JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
• JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
• JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
• JAMES, EPISTLE OF
• JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
• JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
• JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
• JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)

James's See also:

• GAZETTE

Gazette and other quarters, and See also:

• COVENTRY, SIR JOHN (d. 1682)
• COVENTRY, SIR WILLIAM (c. 1628-1686)
• COVENTRY, THOMAS COVENTRY, 1ST BARON (2578–1640)

Coventry See also:

• PATMORE, COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON (1823-1896)

Patmore wrote a eulogistic See also:

• NOTICE

notice in the Fortnightly See also:

• REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

Review (See also:

• JAN

Jan . 1894) . An ardent Roman See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic, much of See also:

• FRANCIS
• FRANCIS (FRarrcols) OF SALES, ST (1567-1622)
• FRANCIS (Lat. Franciscus, Ital. Francesco, Span. Francisco, Fr. Francois, Ger. Franz)
• FRANCIS, SIR PHILIP (174o-1818)

Francis Thompson's verse reminded the critics of See also:

• CRASHAW, RICHARD (1613-165o)

Crashaw, but the beauty and splendid though often See also:

• STRANGE, SIR ROBERT (1721-1792)

strange inventiveness of his diction were immediately recognized as giving him a See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place by himself among contemporary poets, recalling See also:

• KEATS, JOHN (1795-1821)

Keats and See also:

• SHELLEY, MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1797-1851)
• SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE (1792-1822)

Shelley rather than any of his own See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day . Persistent ill health limited his literary output, but See also:

• SISTER

Sister Songs (1895) and New Poems (1897) confirmed the See also:

• OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion formed of his remarkable gifts . But his health was hopelessly broken down by See also:

• TUBERCULOSIS

tuberculosis .

Cared for by the friends already mentioned, he lived a frail existence, chiefly at the Capuchin monastery at Tanlasapt, and later at Storrington; and on the 13th of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1907 he died in See also:

• LONDON

London . He had done a little See also:

• PROSE

prose journalism, and in 1905 published a See also:

• TREATISE

treatise on Health and Holiness, dealing with the ascetic life; but it is with his three volumes of poems that his name will be connected . Among his work there is a certain amount which can justly be called See also:

• ECCENTRIC (from Gr. F,c, out of, and Kivrpov, centre)

eccentric or unusual, especially in his usage of poetically compounded neologisms; but nothing can be purer or more simply beautiful than " The See also:

• DAISY (A.S. daeges cage, day's eye)

Daisy," nothing more intimate and reverent than his poems about See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children, or more magnificent than " The See also:

• HOUND

Hound of See also:

• HEAVEN (0. Eng. hefen, heofon, heofone; this word appears in O.S. hevan; the High. Ger. word appears in Ger. Himmel, Dutch hemel; there does not seem to be any connexion between the two words, and the ultimate derivation of the word is unknown; the sugges

Heaven." For See also:

• GLORY (through the O. Fr. glorie, modern gloire, from Lat. gloria, cognate with Gr. KXebs, abets)

glory of See also:

• INSPIRATION (Lat. inspirare, breathe upon or into)

inspiration and natural magnificence of utterance he is unique among the poets of his See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time . (H .