RPO -- Selected Poetry of Francis Thompson (1859-1907)

Selected Poetry of Francis Thompson (1859-1907)

from Representative Poetry On-line
Prepared by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto
from 1912 to the present and published by the University of Toronto Press from 1912 to 1967.
RPO Edited by Ian Lancashire
A UTEL (University of Toronto English Library) Edition
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries
© 2012, Ian Lancashire for the Department of English, University of Toronto

Index to poems

I fled Him, down the nights and down the days; I fled Him, down the arches of the years; I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways Of my own mind ...
(The Hound of Heaven, 1-4)

Notes on Life and Works

Boardman, Brigid M. "Thompson, Francis Joseph (1859–1907)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Jan. 2011.

Biographical information

Given name: Francis Joseph
Family name: Thompson
Birth date: 18 December 1859
Death date: 13 November 1907
Nationality: English
Family relations
father: Charles Thompson
mother: Mary Thompson
Languages
English
Latin
Greek
Education
Ushaw College: 1870
Owens College, Manchester: 1876 to 1882
Religion: Roman Catholic
Literary period: Victorian
Residences
7 Winckley Street, Preston: 18 December 1859
London: November 1885
Pantasaph, North Wales: 1893 to 1897
Illness: Neuralgia
Cause of death: Consumption
Buried at: St. Mary Roman Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green, Greater London
First RPO edition: 1996-2000