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    Sister Songs - An Offering to Two Sisters: With a Chapter from Francis Thompson, Essays, 1917 by Benjamin Franklin Fisher
    Sister Songs - An Offering to Two Sisters: With a Chapter from Francis Thompson, Essays, 1917 by Benjamin Franklin Fisher
    Sister Songs - An Offering to Two Sisters: With a Chapter from Francis Thompson, Essays, 1917 by Benjamin Franklin Fisher
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    Sister Songs - An Offering to Two Sisters: With a Chapter from Francis Thompson, Essays, 1917 by Benjamin Franklin Fisher

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    “Sister Songs - An Offering to Two Sisters” is a 1908 poem by Francis Thompson. A masterful poem that will be enjoyed by poetry lovers and is not to be missed by fans of Thompson's wonderful work. Francis Thompson (1859–1907) was an English mystic and poet. Thompson went to medical school when he was 18, but left home at the age of 26 to pursue a life of writing. He was homeless for three years, becoming an opium addict and supporting himself through whatever means available. A married couple read his poetry and took him into their home 1888, and in 1893 he published his first book, “Poems”. Other notable works by this author include: “The Poppy” (1893), “Sister Songs” (1895), and “Shelley” (1909). This classic work is being republished now in a new edition complete with a chapter from Benjamin Franklin Fisher's “Francis Thompson, Essays” (1917).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead & Co. Books
    Release dateMay 26, 2020
    ISBN9781528789851
    Sister Songs - An Offering to Two Sisters: With a Chapter from Francis Thompson, Essays, 1917 by Benjamin Franklin Fisher

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      Sister Songs - An Offering to Two Sisters - Francis Thompson

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      SISTER SONGS

      An Offering to Two Sisters

      By

      FRANCIS THOMPSON

      WITH A CHAPTER FROM

      Francis Thompson, Essays, 1917

      BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FISHER

      First published in 1895

      This edition published by Read Books Ltd.

      Copyright © 2019 Read Books Ltd.

      This book is copyright and may not be

      reproduced or copied in any way without

      the express permission of the publisher in writing

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available

      from the British Library

      To Monica and Madeline (Sylvia) Meynell

      Contents

      Biographical Sketch of Francis Thompson by Benjamin Franklin Fisher

      PREFACE

      THE PROEM

      PART THE FIRST

      PART THE SECOND

      INSCRIPTION

      Biographical Sketch

      of Francis Thompson

      by Benjamin Franklin Fisher

      Francis Thompson was born at Preston in Lancashire, England, on the 16th day of December, 1859. His father, Dr. Charles Thompson, was a physician who practiced his profession there and later at Ashton-under-lyne.

      Very early in life he began to read much poetry; his early reading being mostly from Shakespeare, Scott and Coleridge. Later we find him a constant companion of Milton, Shelley and Shakespeare. In 1870 he was sent to Ushaw, a college near Durham. Here he enjoyed a fortunate freedom-the full opportunity of reading the classics. Even during his college life his extreme sensitiveness, like that of Shelley's youth, made him happiest when alone. He studied for the priesthood but in his nineteenth year being found unfitted, he was advised to give up the idea much to the disappointment of his parents.

      Leaving Ushaw he went to Owens College at Manchester to qualify for his father's profession, that of medicine, and although distinguishing himself in Greek and classic work he had no success as a medical student. He says, of this period in his life: I hated my scientific and medical studies and learned them badly. Now (in after life) even that bad and reluctant knowledge has grown priceless to me.

      While at Manchester he would go to the libraries and to the galleries and museums, thus perhaps unconsciously fitting himself for his after work. Failing in his college examinations on more than one occasion and broken down with a nervous illness, like De Quincey he came addicted to the use of opium. He went to London carrying all his wealth with him, which consisted of two volumes, one in either pocket, Aeschylus and Blake. However, there he found but little employment, had no money, suffered intensely all the pangs of hunger and dismay, and finally a complete mental and physical wreck, he was for the time being rescued by a Mr.

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