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Late Nineteenth-Century Poetry
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Collections and selections
The child set in the midst. Ed W. Meynell 1892. Contains 4 poems by
Thompson.
Selected poems. Ed W. Meynell 1908.
Eyes of youth: a book of verse. Ed W. Meynell 1910. Foreword by G. K.
Chesterton. Contains 4 poems by Thompson.
A renegade poet and other essays. Boston 1910. Introd by E. J.
O’Brien.
Poems. Portland ME 1911. Includes A word on Thompson by A.
Symons, foreword by T. B. Mosher.
Works. Ed W. Meynell 3 vols 1913 (vols 1–2 poetry, vol 3 prose); 3 vols
in 1 Westminster MD 1949.
Collected poetry. 1913.
Uncollected verses. 1917 (priv ptd).
Complete poetical works. [c. 1920] (Mod Lib) New York nd.
Essays of today and yesterday: Thompson. 1927. Introd by W.
Meynell.
Youthful verses. Preston 1928 (priv ptd).
Selected poems and prose. 1929.
Selected poems. New York 1930 (rev).
Poems. Ed T. L. Connolly, New York 1932, 1941 (rev).
Selected poems. 1934 (rev).
Poetical works. Oxford 1937 (OSA), rptd 1955.
Selected poems. Ed P. Beard 1938.
Poems. 1946. Collected edn with a bibliography of 1st printings to
1913.
Literary criticisms newly discovered and collected. Ed T. L.
Connolly, New York 1948.
The man has wings: new poems and plays. Ed. T. L. Connolly, New
York 1957.
Poèmes choisis. Ed and tr P. Danchin, Paris 1962.
The poems of Thompson: a new edition. Ed B. M. Boardman c. 2000.
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The 3 vols of poetry pbd during Thompson’s lifetime are listed here to distinguish
them from the errors of subsequent edns and collections as listed above.
See note below. For single essays, poems and trns into Fr, Norwegian, Irish, Cz
and Hebrew, and separate printings of The hound of heaven, see M. P. Pope,
Bibliographies, above; and for essays, T. L. Connolly, Bibliographies,
above. It should be noted that none of these bibliographical sources is complete
and that in particular many of the essays remain uncollected.
The life and labours of Saint John Baptist de la Salle. 1891, rptd 1911
(preface by W. Meynell).
Poems. 1893.
Sister songs: an offering to two sisters. 1895; also priv ptd as Songs
wing to wing: an offering to two sisters, 1895.
New poems. 1897.
Victorian ode. 1897 (priv ptd).
Health and holiness. 1905. Introd by G. Tyrell.
Ode to the English martyrs. 1906 (priv ptd).
Shelley. 1909. Introd by G. Wyndham.
Saint Ignatius Loyola. Ed J. H. Pollen 1901 (preface by W. Meynell),
rptd 1951 (introd by H. Kelly).
Sir Leslie Stephen as a biographer. 1915 (priv ptd). Bibliography and
chronology by C. Shorter.
The mistress of vision. Sussex 1918 (preface by V. McNabb, commentary
by J. O’Connor), rptd Aylesford 1966 (introd by J. Jerome,
essay by H. Williamson).
Little Jesus [1897]; 1920 (priv ptd).
The hound of heaven: a sequence of paintings by R. H. Ives
Gammell, based on the poem, with interpretations by B. M.
Boardman, Boston MA 1994.
All edns and collections pbd after Thompson’s death repeat the errors found
mainly but not exclusively in Works, 1913. The forthcoming new edn,
Boardman, listed above, sets out to provide accurate texts based on original
mss.
Letters
The letters of Francis Thompson. Ed J. E. Walsh, New York 1969.
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Tynan, K. A new and great poet. Illus London News, Dec 1893.
Patmore, C. Mr Thompson: a new poet. Fortnightly Rev, Jan 1894.
Symons, A. Francis Thompson’s poems. Athenaeum, 3 Feb 1894.
‘A.T.Q.C.’ [A. Quiller-Couch] A literary causerie: Thompson’s New
poems. Speaker, May 1897.
Symons, A. Thompson’s New poems. Athenaeum, 12 June 1897.
Lucas, E. V. Thompson’s cricket verses. Cornhill Mag, July 1908, rptd
in his One day and another, 1909.
Meynell, A. Some memories of Thompson. Dublin Rev 142, 1908.
De Lattre, F. Le poète Thompson. Paris 1909, rptd from Revue
Germanique 5, 1909; also in his De Byron à Thompson: essais de
littérature anglaise, Paris 1913.
Tynan, K. Thompson. Fortnightly Rev, Feb 1910.
Cock, A. A. Thompson. Dublin Rev 159 1911.
Beacock, G. A. Thompson. Borna (Leipzig,) 1912.
O’Conor, J. F. X. A study of Thompson’s Hound of heaven. New York
1912.
Armstrong, M. D. The poetry of Thompson. Forum 50, 1913.
Lewis, C. M. Thompson. Yale Rev, Oct 1914.
Jackson, H. In his The eighteen nineties, 1913.
Harrison, A. The poetry of Thompson. Eng Rev 15, 1913.
Figgis, D. Thompson. Contemporary Rev, Oct 1913, rptd in his Byeways
of study, Dublin 1918.
Meynell, E. The life of Francis Thompson. 1913, 1926 (5th edn rev
and condensed).
Meynell, E. The notebooks of Thompson. Dublin Rev, Jan 1917, rptd
in Living Age 294, 1917.
Allen, H. A. The poet of the return to God. Catholic World, June 1918.
Moore, T. V. The hound of heaven. Psychoanalytic Rev 5, 1918.
Walsh, J. E. Strange harp strange symphony: the life of Francis
Thompson. 1968.
Boardman, B. M. Between heaven and Charing Cross: the life of
Francis Thompson. New Haven and London 1988. [bmb]
James Thomson, ‘B.V.’ 1834–82
Mss: The Bodleian holds Bertram Dobell’s extensive collection of mss relating
to Thomson, containing holographs of most of the poetry with the exception of
The city of dreadful night, prose ‘phantasies’, trns from Heine and
Leopardi, notebooks, diaries in London, Colorado and the Basque Country,
letters by and to him, other writings and memoranda. The Pierpont Morgan
Lib, New York, has a complete (but for one verse) ms of The city of dreadful
night as brought to America by G. W. Flaws after Thomson’s death. The BL
contains early drafts for 15 of the 22 sections of The city of dreadful night,
with corrected proofs of Sunday up the river, and 3 notebooks containing
Weddah and Om-el-Bonain, In the room and verse and prose fragments.
A holograph of the Six sonnets to Joseph and Alice Barnes is in the
Bradlaugh Collection at the Bishopsgate Inst. The Alderman Lib, Univ of
Virginia, holds 2 letters to George Eliot and a letter to the editor of Acad. Four
letters to Philip Bourke Marston are in the Louise Chandler Moulton Papers
at the Lib of Congress. The run of Cope’s Tobacco Plant held by Glasgow
Univ Lib has corrections to Thomson articles apparently in Thomson’s hand
(N & Q 228, Aug 1983).
Bibliographies
Dobell, B. and J. M. Wheeler. In The city of dreadful night, Portland
ME 1892.
Walker, I. B. In her Thomson: a critical study, Ithaca NY 1950.
Secondary.
Vachot, C. In his James Thomson, Paris 1964 [in Fr]. Primary and secondary.
Schaefer, W. D. In his James Thomson (‘B.V.’): beyond ‘The city’.
Berkeley and Los Angeles 1965. Primary and secondary.