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Thompson, Francis : Selected Poems of --

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The Eight Thousand.
Tissue guarded Frontis. portrait plus a Biographical Note by Wilfrid Meynell.

Francis Joseph Thompson (16 December 1859 – 13 November 1907) was an English poet and Catholic mystic. 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.
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category: Books > Foreign Language Books > Books in English > Literature in English >
publisher: Methuen, 1910. London,
item number / ISBN: 0063088
binding: cloth bound
pages: 142 p.
language: English

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