G. K. Chesterton在他去世后不久评价道，“自布朗宁之后，Francis Thompson的死，使我们失去了最大的诗意的能量。”[ 9 ] 汤普森的信徒中有年轻的托尔金（J. R. R. Tolkien - 名著《指环王》的作者），他在1913-1914购买了一卷汤普森的作品，后来他回忆说，那是他自己创作的重要影响。[ 10 ]
======================== Francis Thompson (16 December 1859 – 13 November 1907) was an English poet and ascetic. After attending college, he moved to London to become a writer, but could only find menial work and became addicted to opium, and was a street vagrant for years. A married couple read his poetry and rescued him, publishing his first book Poems in 1893. Thompson lived as an unbalanced invalid in Wales and at Storrington, but wrote three books of poetry, with other works and essays, before dying of tuberculosis in 1907.
Thompson was born in Winckley Street, Preston, Lancashire. His father, Charles, was a doctor who had converted to Roman Catholicism, following his brother Edward Healy Thompson, a friend of Cardinal Manning.[1] Thompson was educated at Ushaw College, near Durham, and then studied medicine at Owens College, now the University of Manchester. He took no real interest in his studies and never practised as a doctor, moving instead to London in 1885, to try to become a writer.[2] Here he was reduced to selling matches and newspapers for a living. During this time, he became addicted to opium, which he first had taken as medicine for ill health. Thompson started living on the streets of Charing Cross and sleeping by the River Thames, with the homeless and other addicts. He was turned down by Oxford University, not because he was unqualified, but because of his addiction. Thompson attempted suicide in his nadir of despair, but was saved from completing the action through a vision which he believed to be that of a youthful poet Thomas Chatterton,[citation needed] who had committed suicide almost a century earlier. A prostitute, whose identity Thompson never revealed, befriended him, gave him lodgings, and shared her income with him. Thompson was later to describe her in his poetry as his saviour. She soon disappeared, however, never to return, in his estimation, because she feared she would taint his growing reputation.[3] In 1888, he had been 'discovered' after sending his poetry to the magazine Merrie England. He had been sought out by the magazine's editors, Wilfrid and Alice Meynell. Recognizing the value of his work, the couple gave him a home and arranged for publication of his first book Poems in 1893. The book attracted the attention of sympathetic critics in the St James's Gazette and other newspapers, and Coventry Patmore wrote a eulogistic notice in the Fortnightly Review of January 1894.[2] Concerned about his opium addiction, which was at its height following his years on the streets, the Meynells sent Thompson to Our Lady of England Priory, Storrington.[2] Thompson subsequently lived as an invalid at Pantasaph, Flintshire in Wales and at Storrington. A lifetime of extreme poverty, ill-health, and an addiction to opium took a heavy toll on Thompson, even though he found success in his last years. He would eventually die from tuberculosis at the age of 47, in the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth and he is buried in St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery in Kensal Green.[4] His tomb bears the last line from a poem he wrote for his godson - Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.[5] Style and influence[edit]
His most famous poem, "The Hound of Heaven",[6] describes the pursuit of the human soul by God. This poem is the source of the phrase "with all deliberate speed," used by the Supreme Court in Brown II, the remedy phase of the famous decision on school desegregation.[7] A phrase in "The Kingdom of God"[8] is the source of the title of Han Suyin's novel A Many-Splendoured Thing. In addition, Thompson wrote the most famous cricket poem, the nostalgic "At Lord's". He also wrote Sister Songs (1895), New Poems (1897), and a posthumously published essay, Shelley (1909). He wrote a treatise, On Health and Holiness, dealing with the ascetic life, which was published in 1905. G. K. Chesterton said shortly after his death that "with Francis Thompson we lost the greatest poetic energy since Browning."[9] Among Thompson's devotees was the young J. R. R. Tolkien, who purchased a volume of Thompson's works in 1913-1914, and later said that it was an important influence on his own writing.[10] Halliday Sutherland borrowed the second line of "The Hound of Heaven" for the title of his 1933 autobiographical best-seller "The Arches of the Years".[11] The American novelist Madeleine L'Engle used a line from the poem "The Mistress of Vision" as the title of her last Vicki Austin novel, Troubling a Star. In 2011, Thompson's life was the subject of the stage play and film script HOUND (Visions in the Life of the Poet Francis Thompson) by writer/director Chris Ward, which has been performed in various venues around London. ================================== 弗朗西斯•汤普森（Francis Thompson，1859-1907年），英国诗人。他主要的作品是《天上的猎狗》，一部深刻的长篇宗教诗歌，讲述上帝用爱感化了一群叛逆的基督教徒。他的诗歌想象力丰富，并反映了他的罗马天主教信仰。 汤普森出生于兰开夏，终生疾病缠身。他学了六年的医学但未取得学位。他在伦敦度过了极度贫困的三年，成为鸦片瘾君子，1888年与编辑威尔弗里•梅内尔及其妻子诗人艾丽丝成为朋友。他们一直照顾汤普森直至其去世。他许多作品都发表在《诗歌》（1893年）及《新诗》（1897年）中。汤普森还创作了散文及文学评论。 19世纪末期的英国诗人弗朗西斯•汤普森（Francis Thompson）这样说过：“万事万物……/ 不论远近/ 隐约神秘/ 彼此相连/ 一花既拈/ 万星耀闪。”[1]
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