The Hound of Heaven

Francis Thompson

Franklin Classics Trade Press

Complete Poems of Francis Thompson

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Hardcover book with bright, beautiful blue woodcuts in like new condition(seems unread). Jacket has some tears at top./lh

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Uists and Barra

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Wilton, Morehouse-Barlow (1980) 3rd impression thus. Sticker pull on front cover, tan shadow on half title page from a name label removed, else very good small paperback booklet. B230

The Hound Of Heaven

Morehouse-Barlow Co., Inc.

Francis Thompson is considered the greatest modern Catholic poet, and the Hound of Heaven his greatest inspiration writing; but readers of all faiths find it a spiritual beauty and lyric quality of universal appeal. This collection also contains a large number of Thompson’s other poems—verses about children, religious sonnets, and ecclesiastical ballads. Among them is the beautiful lyric, An Arab Love Song. Thompson's poem inspired, among many others, American painter, R. H. Ives Gammell.

Hound of Heaven, The: And other poems

Branden Books

slight rubbling to spin and cover commensurate with age. good clean copy

I Fled Him, Down the Nights and Down the Days; The Text of the Hound of Heaven.

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Religion & Spirituality

Loyola Pr

The Hound of Heaven (Classic Reprint)

The Hound of Heaven is a work of art in just shy of 200 lines. A short piece for such a life changing poem. It contains more than one beautiful verse and the tone changes seamlessly many times over the poem. Called 'the sweetest, deepest, strongest song ever written in the English tongue' by the Reverend John O'Conor and as Katherine Bregy, highlights in the foreword, a taste for reading such beautiful work as Francis Thompson's can be the greatest possible aid to spiritual development for the individual. Francis Thompson's work describes the flight of the soul from enlightenment, 'down the nights and down the days'. His characterisation of Christ's love is as an insistent ever present force which chases the sinner, proffering salvation but not as option. The thought takes the personification of Christ through a huge variety of iterations, an avenger, a pursuer but still a saviour. The intensity of his religious experience and the potency of his metaphors permeate through the page and into the reader. His characterisation of lived experience as a process of dirtying the soul is powerful and harks back to the proud hermetic Christian traditions of Bede and St Cuthbert. Whilst this is without doubt a work of Christian spirituality there is no shortage of mythological references, an addition which enriches the poetry and illustrative nature of the work. This volume also has a wealth of analysis and explanation of Thompson's original work which allows the full significance of his work to be appreciated by all readers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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The Hound of Heaven

Complete Poems of Francis Thompson

The Hound of Heaven

The Hound of Heaven

Lewis and Harris (Pevensey Island Guides)

Uists and Barra

The Hound Of Heaven

Hound of Heaven, The: And other poems

I Fled Him, Down the Nights and Down the Days; The Text of the Hound of Heaven.

The Hound of Heaven (Classic Reprint)