Excerpt from Francis Thompson: Essays Sometime in the summer of 1910 the author of these essays chanced to obtain a volume of Francis Thompson's poems which had then been recently published in America. He be came greatly interested in the work of Thomp son and read and studied the poems with much enthusiasm. It happened that a few months later he found Thompson's essay on Shelley which had then but recently been put into book form and published in the United States, and this was read with especial delight. The Shel ley essay prompted the writing of articles simi lar in form on the life and works of Thompson, and in the fall of 1910 the two essays here pub lished were written, the author at the time intending them for magazine publication. When they were completed, however, he beand it was the author's hope that the articles might to some extent be the means of awaken ing a still greater interest and appreciation in the life and works of Thompson in this country; and it is believed that although Thompson is known now to many, yet the publication of the essays may be the means of bringing to others a realization of the beauty and greatness of Thompson's literary work, as well as consti tuting in themselves a contribution to good literature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.