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THE HOUND OF HEAVEN: DOCUMENTARY & MODERN ADAPTATION

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THE STORY OF FRANCIS THOMPSON'S POETIC MASTERPIECE

THE POWER OF CHRISTIAN STORYTELLING

C. S. Lewis once wrote that stories have a unique knack of getting under our
skin and hitting us at a deeper level than our thoughts. They can strengthen old
certainties and open doors we thought were locked. Stories have the power to
express the inexpressible and provide answers to questions that can be answered
in no other way. Stories-whether told in word, picture, song or verse-have the
ability to satisfy a deep longing in each of us.

When Jesus told His followers how much we all need God's love, it was not a
theological treatise. Instead, He told a story: There once was a man who had two
sons. And the younger one said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of the
inheritance.' The simplicity of this famous parable belies some richly profound
truths. And we can glean something different and important to ponder each time
we read it.

The story Francis Thompson tells in his classic poem The Hound of Heaven works
in exactly this way-stirring our hearts and haunting our dreams with a yearning
we do not fully understand. Something comes through the poem into our own lives,
kindling a desire we cannot quite put our finger on...

FRANCIS THOMPSON (1859-1907)



Francis Thompson was born in Northwest England in 1859. The son of Catholic
converts, as a boy he was initially educated for the priesthood. When he was 18,
at his parents' insistence, he entered Owens College in Manchester to follow in
his father's footsteps and study medicine. But before long, he left for London
hoping to pursue what he believed was his true vocation of being a writer. As a
result of ill health and subsequent medical treatment, like many before him,
Thompson became addicted to opium. He soon fell into a life of despair and
destitution, sleeping on the banks of the Thames with London's homeless and
selling matches just to stay alive

Yet it was during this time, in the midst of all his hunger, deprivation and
hopelessness, that he was most able to see the kingdom of Heaven. These
devastating experiences honed his poetic focus and insights. In 1888, Thompson
sent a tattered and torn manuscript to the Catholic periodical Merry England.
Its editors, Wilfrid and Alice Meynell, devout Christians themselves, not only
recognized Thompson's poetic ability, they took him under their care and gave
him a home. They also arranged for the publication of his first book in 1893,
simply titled Poems, which included  The Hound of Heaven. The poem was
immediately recognized as a masterpiece.

Thompson spent the years from 1893-1897 nursing his frail health in a monastery
in Wales. He died of tuberculosis on November 13, 1907. He was 47. After his
death, Alice Meynell wrote that no change in poetic tastes in the years to come
could ever "lessen the height or diminish the greatness" of Thompson's profound
accomplishment. In his eulogy for Thompson, G. K. Chesterton simply concluded:
"He was a great poet." Among those who would be influenced by Thompson was the
young J. R. R. Tolkien, who purchased a volume of Thompson's works in 1913, and
later claimed that it had played an important role in his own writing.

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