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A misfit poet of heaven: ne'er-do-well Francis Thompson wrote the still-haunting 'Hound of Heaven'.(Opinion & ARTS)(Biography)
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November 9, 2007|
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From 1887 on, a frail, shabby man with an abstracted air could be spotted on London's streets. He was constantly alone and would walk past, looking always straight before him. He would retrace his steps and go to and fro along a certain beat as if indefinitely postponing the moment of food or sleep.
If he had taken laudanum, which was frequently, he would look flushed and his eyes dazed.
He was the English poet Francis Thompson, who died at dawn on Nov. 13, a hundred years ago, at the age of 48.
Thompson wrote the poem "The Hound of Heaven," which ...
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