Male : Catholic Poet & Essayist. Intimate of the Meynells who rescued him from poverty and opium addiction

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Preston, Lancashire

Date of Birth : 1859 Date of Death : 1907 Age : 48

Education : Ushaw Catholic College, Durham & Owens College, Manchester (Medicine, but failed to graduate)

1891-1900
Life and Labours of St John the Baptist De La Salle (1891 Sinkin)
(In) The Child Set in the Midst : By Modern Poets (1892 Leadenhall Press) - edited by Wilfrid Meynell
Poems (1893 Elkin Mathews & John Lane) - Frontis Laurence Housman . Ltd Ed 1000
(1893 Copeland & Day, Boston)
Sister Songs : An Offering to Two Sisters (1895 John Lane) - Ltd Ed 1000
New Poems (1897 Constable)

1901-1915
Health and Holiness (1905 Burns & Oates)
Selected Poems (1908 Burns, Oates & Methuen) - Ed by Wilfrid Meynell
St Ignatius Loyola (1909 Burns & Oates)
Shelley : An Essay (1909 Burns & Oates)
A Renegade and Other Essays (1910 Bell, US)
Life and Labours of St John the Baptist De La Salle (1911 Burns & Oates)
Shelley : An Essay (1912 M E Mosher, Portland. 2nd Mosher Ed - 950)
Collected Works (Ed by Wilfrid Meynell) (1913 Burns & Oates) - 3 vols
The Collected Poetry (1913 H & S) - 2500
The Hound of Heaven (1914 Chatto & Windus) - Frideswith Huddart
Sir Leslie Stephen as a Biographer (1915 PP by C Shorter) - Ltd Ed 20

1916 Onwards
The Hound of Heaven (1917 M E Mosher, Portland. 5th Mosher Ed - 100)
Uncollected Verses (1917 PP)
Youthful Verses (1928 Halewood, Preston)
Poems (Ed by Francis Meynell) (c1930 Burns & Oates)
Poems (Ed by Wilfrid Meynell) (1937 OUP)
Poems (Ed by Terence L Connolly) (1941 Century, US)
Collected Poems (1946 Hollis & Carter)
Literary Criticisms, Newly Discovered (Ed by T L Connolly) (1948 Dutton, US)
Minor Poets (Ed by T L Connolly) (1949 Anderson & Ritchie US)
The Hound of Heaven (c1953 Peter Pauper Press, Mt Vernon) - Valenti Angelo
The Man Has Wings : New Poems & Plays (Ed T L Connolly) (1957 Hanover House, US)
The Real Robert Louis Stevenson & Other Essays (Ed by Connolly) (1959 UPI, US) - pb

READING
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt : Francis Thompson (1907 Burns & Oates, London)
John Thomson : Francis Thompson - The Preston-Born Poet (1912 Halewood)
Katherine Bregy : The Poets' Chantry (1912 Herbert & Daniel)
Rev J O'Connor : Study of Francis Thompsons' "Hound of Heaven" (1912 John Lane)
Everard Meynell : The Life of Francis Thompson (1913 Burns & Oates)
J K Rooker : Francis Thompson (in French) (1913 Herbert & Daniel)
Rev O'Connor : Commentary on "The Mistress of Vision" (1918 Ditchling Press)
F LeBuffe : The Hound of Heaven : An Interpretation (1921 Macmillan)
John Thomson : Francis Thompson : Poet and Mystic (1923 Simpkin)
Dr J Hutton : Guidance from Francis Thompson in Matters of Faith (1926 H &S)
R L Megroz : The Poet of Earth in Heaven (1927 Faber & Gwyer)
T H Wright : Francis Thompson and His Poetry (1927 Harrap)
A de la Gorce : Francis Thompson (1933 B & O)
F C Owlett : Essay on Francis Thompson (1936 Bumpus) - Ltd Ed 300
Father Vincent McNabb : Francis Thompson and Other Essays (1936 Pepler)
F Doherty : Song out of Sorrow (1942 Lund)
Terence L Connolly : In His Paths (1944 Bruce, US)
Francis Thompson : A Play by Jack de Leon (1945 Fortune Press)
Viola Meynell : Francis Thompson and Wilfrid Meynell (1952 Hollis)
J C Reid : Francis Thompson : Man and Poet (1959 Routledge)
P H Butter : Francis Thompson (1961)
P van K Thomson : Francis Thompson : A Critical Biography (1961 Nelson)
Margaret Gillett & Monika Kehoe : The Laurel and the Poppy (1967 Vanguard, US) - novel
John E Walsh : Strange Harp, Strange Symphony (1967 Hawthorn, US)
The Letters of Francis Thompson (1969 Hawthorn, US)
Brigid M Boardman : Between Heaven and Charing Cross (1988 Yale)