Francis Thompson

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Francis Thompson

Francis Thompson (born December 18, 1859 in Preston , Lancashire , † November 13, 1907 in London ) was an English poet and mystic.

Life

Thompson first studied Catholic theology at Ushaw College (Durham), later medicine in Manchester. Both courses remained without a degree. In 1885 he went to London. His life was marked by poverty, deep religiosity and his addiction to opium. He was looked after and discovered as a poet in the early 1890s by the journalist couple Wilfred and Alice Meynell , when he was an opium addict and lived homeless on the street. He lived with the Meynells for over twenty years when he wasn't in rehab in a drug clinic. In his later years he lived at Storrington Monastery in Sussex. The Meynells helped him publish his works, or acted as editors. He wrote most of his poetry in Storrington Monastery (Sussex). His best-known poem is The Hound of Heaven (Eng. The Hound of Heaven ). Thompson died of tuberculosis at the age of 48.

Appreciation

“The life of extreme deprivation and loneliness was also marked by astonishing inwardness, sensitivity and deep religious experience. He gained support and hope in faith and found in poetry a creative answer to spiritual needs. "( Franz Wöhrer )

“Francis Thompson is a poet one way or another, through the power of language alone, but he is greatest and most immortal at this time, both because he was not only a poet returning to nature, but also a poet returning to God because he was the poet of returning to God without ceasing to be the poet of returning to nature. That's it. "( Theodor Haecker )

reception

Works

  • The Life and Labor of Saint John Baptist de la Salle. 1891.
  • Health and Holiness . A Study of the Relation between Brother Ass, the Body, his Rider, the Soul. Single by G. Tyrell. London: Burns et al. Oates 1905.
  • Ode to English Martyrs . London: Burns et al. Oates 1906.
  • Selected Poems. Edited by Wilfrid Meynell. 1908
  • Shelley. Single by G. Wyndham. 1909
  • Saint Ignatius Loyola. Edited by J. Pollen 1909. Foreword by Wilfrid Meynell. 1951
  • A Renegade and Other Essays . 1910
  • Poems. Portland, Maine: Mosher 1911.
New edition: Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2009. ISBN 1-44329381-4
  • The Works of Francis Thompson. Edited by Wilfrid Meynell. 3 vols. 1913
  • Collected poetry. 1913
  • Essays of Today and Yesterday. Single by Wilfrid Meynell. 1927
  • Selected Poems and Prose. 1929
  • Poems. Edited by TL Connolly. 1932, revised. 1941
  • Poems. Edited by Wilfrid Meynell. 1937
  • Poems. Collected Edition with a Bibliography of First Printings. 1946
  • Literary Criticisms. Edited by TL Connolly. 1948. New edition. 1976
  • The Letters of Francis Thompson . Edited by John Walsh. New York: Hawthorn books 1969. [first edition]
German translations
  • Shelley . A corymbos for autumn. The hound of heaven . Transferred and with an essay "About Francis Thompson and the art of language" by Theodor Haecker . Innsbruck: Brenner 1925.
  • The sky dog ​​and other poems . Translated from an interlinear translation by Holger Klein from the English by Paul Wühr . Munich: Stiftung Lyrik Kabinett 2009. (Lyrik Kabinett. 2.) ISBN 3-93877621-8
Bilingual edition

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilfrid and Alice Meynell: The Couple at the Heart of Great Britain's Catholic Revival
  2. ^ Theodor Haecker: About Francis Thompson and the art of language. In: Francis Thompson: The Hound of Heaven. Transferred by Theodor Haecker. Innsbruck 1925.
  3. ↑ Oren Harman: The Price of Altruism. George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness . 2011. ISBN 978-0-39333999-4
  4. ^ The Hound of Heaven. By Francis Thompson .
personal data
SURNAME Thompson, Francis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English poet
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Preston , Lancashire
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1907
Place of death London