# Francis Thompson
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For others with this name, see francis thompson (disambiguation).francis thompson (16 December 1859 – 13 November 1907) was an English poet and Catholic mystic. At the behest of his father, a doctor, he entered medical school at the age of 18, but at 26 left home to pursue his talent as a writer and poet. He spent three years on the streets of London, supporting himself with menial labour, becoming addicted to opium which he took to relieve a nervous problem.
Notes of a Camp Follower on the Western Front-E. W. Hornung
Hjalmar Johanson (novel, 1926) is a boyish unworldly Swedish body builder come to Walpole’s fictional cathedral town of Polchester. His name is “simplified” by the townsfolk to Harmer John. He is attracted to Polchester by the cathedral. He has a vision of transforming the town and its populace t...
Making Home Profitable-Kate Saint Maur
Hjalmar Johanson (novel, 1926) is a boyish unworldly Swedish body builder come to Walpole’s fictional cathedral town of Polchester. His name is “simplified” by the townsfolk to Harmer John. He is attracted to Polchester by the cathedral. He has a vision of transforming the town and its populace t...
Lolly Willowes or, the loving huntsman-Sylvia Townsend Warner
Hjalmar Johanson (novel, 1926) is a boyish unworldly Swedish body builder come to Walpole’s fictional cathedral town of Polchester. His name is “simplified” by the townsfolk to Harmer John. He is attracted to Polchester by the cathedral. He has a vision of transforming the town and its populace t...
God Hunts You Like a Dog
What if the spiritual life is less about finding God, and more about realizing that God has been chasing you the whole time?
In this episode, we look at Francis Thompson’s The Hound of Heaven, the conversion of Jacques Fesch, Jonah, the lost sheep, and the strange, relentless mercy of a God who r...
Forty Seasons of First-Class Cricket - Richard Gorton Barlow
R. G. "Dick" Barlow was one of the most accomplished all-round cricketers of the late 19th Century. For many years he opened the batting with A. N. Hornby for Lancashire and England, often acting as a "stonewaller" who "carried his bat through the innings" while his teammates hit out for runs. He...
The Hound of Heaven, LibriVox Long Poems Collection 006, Francis Thompson, Librivox
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All Things Considered 34 - A Dead Poet, 35 - Christmas
In which the rare and bewildering genius of Francis Thompson is explored, as a poet capable of encompassing both the vastness of the cosmos and the minute intricacies of theological symbolism, thus embodying the paradox of profound poetic obscurity. And in a meditative turn upon Christmas, a plea...
(Sermon only) ”Hunted by Grace” Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley October 18, 2026
Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley
October 18, 2026
Hunted by Grace
Rev. Marcus Liefert
As we close a worship series on the search for salvation, one last turn: what if we've had the hunt backward all along? The 19th century English poet Francis Thompson called it "The Hound of He...
Faith - The Hound of Heaven
Throughout Ireland's history, poets, monks, and storytellers have reflected on the mystery of God's presence among us. In this episode, we explore "The Hound of Heaven," the celebrated poem by Francis Thompson, the English poet whose own life of poverty, struggle, and unexpected conversion gave r...
