Index

Absent-mindedness, Francis Thompson's, 9, 26 n., 31, 276 Academy, The, 71 n., 329; articles by F. T. in, 42, 163-4, 255, 257, 259-64, 267-70, 316, 321, 332-3; poems by F. T. in, 255, 259, 337; F. T.'s connexion with, 245, 253-64, 334-5 Accent, 176 Acerbity, F. T.'s assumed, 89 Aeschylus, 58, 90 "After her Going," 183 "After Woman, The," 195, 228-9 Aloofness, F. T.'s, 8, 24, 35-6, 279-80 Alphonsus, Father, 181 "Amelia Applejohn," 247 American Ecclesiastical Review, 143 "Amphicypellon" (Sister-Songs), 105-106, 294 Ann (De Quincey's), 63, 83 Ann (Francis Thompson's), 63, 81-4, 92 Anger, F. T.'s incapacity for, 54, 141-2 Anselm, Fr. (now Archbishop of Simla), 174, 180-1, 183, 189-90; letters to F. T., 344-5 "Anthem of Earth, An," 37, 47, 177, 201, 241; alluded to, 157 Aquinas, St. Thomas, 218 Archer, Mr. William, 144, 152-3, 337; quoted, 241; letter to F. T., 242 Arnold, Matthew, F. T. on, 170 Arnold, Sir Edwin, 233 Ashbourne, Lord, 183 Ashton-under-Lyne, 5, 39, 71 Asquith, Mr., 160 "Assumpta Maria," 173-4 Astrology, 330 "Astronomer, A Dead," 124, 126 Athenæum, The, poem by F. T. in, 235; reviews of F. T. in, 144-6, 241; F. T.'s connexion with, 243, 326, 336 Augustine, St., quoted, 147, 165; F. T. on, 172 Austin, Mr. Alfred, 332 Ave Maria (Notre Dame, Indiana), 137 n. Ballantyne, R. M., 16 Barry, Rev. Canon, 171 Beacock, Mr., Concordance to F. T., 154, 165, 167 Beardsley, Aubrey, 323-4 Bearne, Fr. David, 185 Beauty, female, 10, 12 Bennett, Mr. Arnold, 149-50 Berlioz, 55, 348 Bernard, St., 172, 191, 288 Beuno's, St., College, 185 Bible, the, its diction, 158, 171; symbolism in, 191, 194, 196; F. T.'s reading of, 172-3; Apocalypse, 172-3; Canticles, 223; Ecclesiastes, 173, 193, 238; Genesis, 227; Pentateuch, 223; the Prophets, 196, 264; Psalms, 194, 196, 209; St. John, 189, 225 Blackburn, Mrs., 126, 143, 252 Blackburn, Vernon, 21, 95, 126-7, 138-9, 152 Blackfriars, 64, 278 Blake, 331; quoted, 223; F. T.'s reading of, 58, 90; Mr. E. J. Ellis on, 219 Blunt, Mr. W. Scawen, 85 n., 137, 245, 347-8; quoted, 131 n.; F. T. on, 256; F. T.'s reading of, 165 Bookman, The, review of New Poems, 241; Mr. Garvin's article in, on F. T., 167, 243 Bootblack, F. T. as a, 65 Booth, Mr. Bramwell, 107 Booth, "General," 79-80, 106 Bootmaker's assistant, F. T. as a, 71-5 Boys and boyhood, 17-19, 21 Breviary, the, 171-3, 182 Bridges, Mr. Robert, 136 "Brin," 118 British Review, 240 Broads, the Norfolk, 118, 173 Brondesbury, 45, 274 Brontë, Charlotte, 76-7, 127, 328 "Broom-branch at Twilight, A," 304 Browne, Sir Thomas, quoted, 84, 95-6; F. T.'s reading of, 95, 165; his diction, 47, 155-6 Browning, E. B., 124, 127 Browning, R., Browning on F. T., 120-2, 124, 137 n.; William Sharp's Life of, reviewed by F. T., 121, 124; his obscurity, 146; his diction, 154-5; his observation, 275 Bryan, Maggie, 230 Bunyan, 225 "Bunyan in the Light of Modern Criticism," 92, 267 Burns, Robert, F. T. compared with, 140; F. T. on, 168, 263-4 Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, 188 Butler, Samuel (Hudibras), 196, 270 "By Reason of thy Law," 174 Campion, 152 Cancelled passages, 107-8 Canon Law in Her Portrait, 174 "Captain of Song, A," 235 Capuchins, 128, 140, 180-1 Cardan, 196 Cardinal points, symbolism of the, 192-6 Carlisle Place, 108 Carmen, 102 "Carmen Genesis," 285-6, 309-10 Carmina Mariana, 173 Carroll, Dr., late Bishop of Shrewsbury, 24, 107 n., 117, 144; letters to, 97, 123 Casartelli, Dr., Bishop of Salford, 15 Catholic Encyclopædia, 335 Catholic World (N.Y.), 137 n. Catholicism, F. T. on, 59-60, 224 "Catholics in Darkest England," 106 Cawein, Mr. Madison, 268-9 Chambers, Mr. E. K., 154 Chancery Lane, 253-4 Chapman, 175 Charing Cross, 61; post office, 86-8 Charles Borromeo, St., 208-9 Chatterton, 61 Chelsea, 4, 82 Chesterfield, Lord, 272 Chesterton, Mr. G. K., 165, 208, 331 Child set in the midst by Modern Poets, The, 123 Child who will never grow old, The, 250 Children and Childhood. F. T.'s childhood, 5-14, 24, 98; his child-likeness, 247, 249; his ways with children, 74, 104, 114-17, 119, 251; on the children of London, 79-82 Chisholm, Mr. Hugh, 140 Church, the, 202, 226, 322 Church Court (or Passage), Chancery Lane, 5, 68 "Clarendon" Reading Room, 68 Clarke, Fr. R. F., 85, 193 Clement, St., 222-3 Cobbe, Frances Power, 260-1 Cock, Mr. Albert, 201 Coleridge, F. T.'s early reading of, 10, 96, 161-2, 241; affinities and analogies with F. T., 3, 47, 49, 56, 71 n., 94-5, 163, 241, 325, 340, 343-4; and opium, 53; as a poet, 127, 163-4; quoted, 166, 179, 205 "Collecting" books, 62 Collins, 87 Colwyn Bay, 12-13, 44 Constable & Co., Messrs., 277 "Contemplation," 222 Contemporary Review, 136 Conversation, F. T.'s, 47, 62, 111, 253, 311-12, 314, 342, 349 Cooper, T. Fenimore, 16 Corbishly, Monsignor, 26 Corporal Punishment, 19-20 "Corymbus for Autumn, A," 137 n., 167 Courage, F. T.'s lack of active, 55, 62 Covent Garden, 76-7, 91, 273, 278 Cowley, 170; F. T. compared to, 146-7; diction, 155; F. T.'s reading of, 165-7; quoted, 173 Crashaw, F. T. and, 144, 146-7, 164, 166-7, 179, 257, 267-8, 288 Crawley, 112, 181, 189, 344-6 Cricket, 13, 39-45, 326, 328 Critic, The (N.Y.), 137, 240 Cross, the, 6, 95 n., 193 n., 211-13 Crosskell, Canon Charles, Procurator of Ushaw, 26 Crowley, Mr. Aleister, 268 Cuthbert, Fr., 189 Daily Chronicle, reviews of F. T., 135, 145, 170, 240, 241; review of Mrs. Meynell, 149; paragraph by A. M., 159; odes by F. T. in, 321, 333 Daily Mail, verse by F. T. in, 227; F. T.'s reading of, 314-15, 328 Daily News, 241 "Daisy," 104, 118, 123, 140, 160, 167 Daniel, Samuel, 270 Dante, 14, 87, 170, 172, 200 Darwinism, 244 "Daughter of Lebanon" (De Quincey's), 84, 164 David, Mr. and Mrs., 347 Davidson, John, 136, 140-1, 176, 311 "Dead Cardinal of Westminster, To the," 107-8 (cancelled stanzas), 129, 167, 226 de Bary, Mr. Richard, 182 Dedications to Poems and New Poems, 128, 236-7 Denbigh, Lady, 186 Depression, F. T.'s fits of, 27, 47, 96, 185 De Quincey, affinities and analogies with F. T., 46-7, 50-2, 62-3, 76, 83-84, 95, 168, 329, 343; F. T.'s reading of, 46-7, 50, 53-4, 98, 164-5, 267-8; and opium, 48-9, 51-3, 95; otherwise quoted, 133 n. Despairs and panics, 117-8, 316-7, 335 De Vere, Aubrey, 269 Diction, F. T.'s, 132-3, 148, 152-60, 193 Dimbovitza, The Bard of the, 264 Dolls, 9-10 "Domus Tua," 130, 148 Donne, 148, 155, 165, 173-4, 212 n., 213 Doubleday, Mr. and Mrs., 242, 247-8; letter to Mr. Doubleday, 306 n. Douglas, Lord Alfred, 269 Dowling, Mr. Richard, 267 Dowson, Ernest, 160, 323-4 Drayton, Michael, 154-5, 165, 270 "Dread of Height, The," 220, 222, 225 "Dream Tryst," 13-14, 92, 102, 124, 167 "Dress" (verses in Daily Mail), 227 Driffield, Fr., 101 Drummond of Hawthornden, 208 Drury Lane, 89 Dryden, 101, 146, 155, 175, 307 Dublin Review, 94, 96-7, 100, 201 Dumas, 259 Early verse, 27-30 Ecclesiastical Ballads, 169, 195 n., 283 Eckhart, Meister, 165 Edgbaston, 248 Edgware Road, 65, 275, 287 Edinburgh Review, 150-1, 171, 185, 241, 246 Egoism, the poets', 308 Egyptian religion, 193-4, 196, 222-3 Elgin Avenue, 273-4, 280, 339 Eliot, George, 127 Elision, 132 Elizabethans, the, 177, 256, 270, 334 Embankment, Thames, 24, 278 Emerson, 321, 342 Encyclopædia, an, 56 Enlistment, 56-7, 163 "Erotic" poet(!), F. T. as an, 3, 14 n., 124 Esotericism, 191-6, 223-4 Eternal punishment, 226 Etymologies, 159-60 Eve, the New, 194-5 Exercise-books, 32, 34, 104 Extinct animals, 37, 157 Failures, F. T.'s successive, 32-4, 54-6, 57 Fairy Tales, 14, 103, 116 "Fallen Yew, The," 108, 109, 132 Fancy and imagination, 191 Feilding, Everard, 186-8 Fiona Macleod, 260 Fisher, Mr., 334 Fletcher, Fr. Philip, 124 "Form and Formalism," 215 Formby, Mr., 127 Fortnightly Review, 126, 139, 146-9 Francis, St., of Assisi, 60, quoted, 181-2, 283, 295; F. T. on, 181, 295-6 Francis, St., of Sales, 127, 270 Franciscan Days of Vigil (De Bary's) quoted, 182 Franciscans, the, 110 n., 180-3 Freemasonry, 193 n. Friston, Suffolk, 118-19, 340-1 "From the night of Forebeing," 166, 184 F. S., 25 Gale, Mr. Norman, 136, 140, 249 Gardner, Mr. Edmund, 211 n. Garvin, Mr. James, 122 Garvin, Mr. Louis, 122-3, 145, 167, 243; letters to F. T., 332-3 Gentleness, F. T.'s extreme, 20, 119 Gerrard, Fr. T. J., 348 Ghosh, Mr. S. K., 211-12 n., 317 Ghost, a, 186-7, 188 Gibbon, 26 Gillow, Canon Henry, 15, 26 Glasgow, 55-6 Gloom, 133, 227 Golden Halfpennies, the, 67 Gosse, Mr. Edmund, 152 Granville Place, 45, 314 Greco, El, 327 Guardian, The, 240 Guildhall Library, London, 63, 91 Hardy, Mr. Thomas, 265-6, 268 Harrow Road, 190, 281 Head, Dr. Henry, 186-8 Hawthorne, quoted, 24, 293 Hayes, Mr. Alfred, 248-9 Health and Holiness, 288-90, 348 "Heard on the Mountain," 175, 306 Hearn, Lafcadio, 15, 20, 21-3 Henley, W. E., F. T. on, 136, 177-8, 256, 263, 266-7; on F. T., 149, 262-4; meeting with, 264-6 Herbert, George, 166-7, 283, 305 "Her Portrait," 127, 141, 174 Hind, C. Lewis, 253, 263-5, 321; letters from F. T. to, 256-64; letter to F. T. from, 264 Hinkson, Mrs., see Tynan, Katharine Holyhead, 13 Homer, 74, 105 Hospital, F. T. in, 94, 349-50 Hospital of St. John and St. Elizabeth, 349-50 "Hound of Heaven, The," 84, 122, 137 n., 144, 164-5, 176, 205-6, 211, 300, 319 Housman, Mr. Laurence, 135 Hügel, Baron von, 201 Hugo, Victor, 98, 175, 306 n. Humility, F. T.'s, 187, 237 Humorous verse, 13, 27-8, 111-12, 331 Hunt, Leigh, 191 Huxley, 74 Hyde, Mr. William, 277, 281; letter from F. T. to, 277 "Idylls of the King," F. T. on the, 101 Ignatius Loyola, Life of St., 336 Illness and ill-health, 46, 94, 104, 125, 129, 257, 260, 272-3, 339, 349 Imagery, F. T.'s, 13, 91, 187, 207, 216; F. T. on his own imagery, 97-8, 158; F. T.'s imagery criticised, 148; A. M. on imagery, 216-17; F. T. on imagery in general, 151, 215-17, 219 Imagination, 191, 215-16 Imperial and Colonial Magazine, 335 Indifference to comfort, F. T.'s, 287, 288 Individualism, F. T. on, 108-10 Individuality, 108 Inexpertness, F. T.'s, 8, 75 Inobservance, F. T.'s, 274, 276 Irish Monthly, 185 Jacobs, Mr. W. W., 266, 271, 350 Jacopone da Todi, 309, 323 James, Henry, 329 Jerome, St., 171 Joan of Arc, 199 John, St., 225. See also Bible John, St., and St. Elizabeth, Hospital of, 283, 349-50 John of the Cross, St., 146, 224 Johnson, Dr., 325; quoted, 348 Johnson, Lionel, 85, 323; quoted, 152, 282 Josephus, 74 Joubert, quoted, 200 (222) Journalism, 93, 111, 316, 334 "Judgment in Heaven, A," 59, 136, 137, 144, 167 Keats, 92, 150, 152, 164, 193, 243, 307, 318 Kelsall, an actor, 64 Kempis, Thomas à, 225-6, 243, 283 Kensall Green, St. Mary's Cemetery, 351 Kensington Gardens, 104, 114-15 Kent, W. H., 174 Kent's Bank, near Alverstone, 13 Kilburn, 268, 274 King, Miss Katharine Douglas, 250-1; letters to F. T., 250-1 King, Mrs. Hamilton, letters to F. T., 132, 250 Kingsford, Anna, 174 Kipling, Mr. Rudyard, 126, 170, 175, 262, 268, 270 L., Miss, 60 Laburnum, 29, 273 Ladysmith, siege of, 9 Lamb, Charles, 20, 61, 321 Landor, 260 Landladies, 274, 279-80, 317 Lane, Mr. John, 129, 135-6, 145, 184 Lang, Mr. Andrew, 136-7, 139, 165 Latin, 171 Latinisms, 33, 155-7 Laureateship, the, 233-4 Lecky, Mr. Walter, 137 Le Gallienne, Mr. Richard, 135-6, 141, 145, 149 Leo XIII., 283 Leonard Square, 250 Leslie, Mr. Shane, 91 Libraries, F. T. as a haunter of, 10, 16, 25, 27, 37, 47, 63 Light, 190, 238 n. Light-heartedness, F. T.'s, 27-8, 77 Lilly, W. S., Century of Revolution, 124 "Lily of the King, The," 283 Literary World, 240 Liturgy, the, 30-31, 33, 156, 171-4 Lockyer, Sir Norman, 238 Lodge, 160 Lodging-houses, 64-5 "Lodi, Storming of the Bridge, at," 26 Log-rolling, 138, 140-143 London, F. T. on, 77, 79, 277-9; F. T. in, 46, 54, 61-93, 104, 236 Lord's, 44-5 Love and love-affairs, 11, 14, 38, 73-4, 230-2 "Love declared," 230 Lower-worldliness, F. T.'s, 64-7 Lucas, Mr. E. V., 41, 45, 253, 264 Lucas, Winifrid (Mrs. H. Le Bailly), 250 Lytton-Bulwer, 74, 157, 265 Lytton, Hon. Neville, 337 Macaulay, 10, 26, 169, 260 Maeterlinck, 198-9 "Magic, Varia on," 188, 193 "Making of Viola, The," 59, 93, 122, 158, 179 "Man Proposes, Woman Disposes," 227, 337 n. Manchester, F. T. in, 35-6, 46-9, 51, 55, 58, 61, 75, 84, 274 Manchester Guardian, 145, 332 Mangan, 168 Mann, Rev. Horace K., 15-16, 19, 24, 26 Manning, Cardinal, 79, 85 n., 107-8, 111, 290 Marianus, Fr., 180 Maries, Mrs., 274, 318 Marlowe, 168, 244 Marryat, Captain, 16 Martin, Miss Agnes, 3, 4 "Martyrs, To the English," 275 Marvell, 165 Mary, the Blessed Virgin, 46 n., 172-3, 227, 228 Mary Ignatius, Sister (F. T.'s aunt), 5 Mary of St. J. F. de Chantal, Sister (F. T.'s aunt), 5 Mary of the Angels, St., Bayswater, 281, 341 Mary's, St., Cemetery, Kensal Green, 351 Massingham, Mr. H. W., letters to F. T., 332, 336-7 May, Mr. (F. T.'s cousin), 46 McMaster, Mr., 70-76 Medal, a consecrated, 13, 73 Medical student, F. T. as, 35-56 Melpomene, the Vatican, 37-8 Mercure de France, 319 Meredith, George, F. T.'s reading of, 150, 165, 266; on A. M., 233; F. T.'s meetings with, 245-7; on F. T., 246-7, 351 Merry England, 85, 110, 113, 121, 193, 250; poems by F. T. in, 87-8, 92, 95, 102, 107, 120, 122, 124, 126, 130-31, 137 n., 138, 304; prose articles by F. T. in, 85, 92, 96, 106, 179 Metaphor and simile, 151 Metre, 151, 158-9, 175-9, 220 Meynell, Alice, on F. T., 94-5, 107, 126, 155, 157, 179, 216-17, 226-7, 320, 331; F. T. on, 86, 113, 126-8, 133 n., 136, 146, 148-9, 216; other references, 95, 120-1, 137, 183, 194, 224, 234, 238, 245-7, 250, 256, 336; letters from F. T. to, 130-1, 133 n., 159, 177, 183, 188-9, 226, 297, 312, 313; letters to F. T., 129, 139, 158 Meynell family, F. T. and the, 114, 116-7, 160, 184, 247, 268 Meynell, Mr. Wilfrid, F. T. and, 87, 89-92, 95, 97, 107, 111, 137, 143, 194, 247, 250, 262, 284 n., 303, 317, 327, 336, 349; F. T. on, 86; on F. T., 98-100, 123, 124-5, 320-2; letters from F. T. to, 85, 88, 100, 103-4, 110 n., 114-17, 129, 135, 145-6, 180, 183, 234-5, 238, 242, 250, 316-18, 335, 337, 339; other letters to, 58, 107 n., 120, 140, 183, 186-8, 247-8 Michael, Sister, 350 Mills, Mr. J. Saxon, 39, 60 Milton, 140, 155-6, 159, 196, 281, 307 Miracles, 67, 348 "Mistress of Vision, The," 165, 222, 237, 240-1 Monica Mary (Saleeby, née Meynell), 113-14, 118-19, 148, 340-1; letters to, 340-1 "Monica thought dying, To," 132, 145 "Monica, To, after nine years," 119 Moore, Mr. Sturge, 269, 315 Morning Post, 152, 240 Morris, Sir Lewis, 190 Moulton, Mrs. Louise Chandler, 252 Murderer, a ("D. I."), 64, 78 Music, F. T.'s love of, 55 Mysticism, true and false, 148, 198-9, 221, 223, 237 Mythologies, 196 Napoleon Judges, 337 n. Nares' Glossary, 154 "Narrow Vessel, A," 229-32 Nation, The, 155, 157, 179, 216, 320, 336 National Observer, 138 National Review, 233 Nature, F. T. on, 30, 131-2, 205-7, 211 Nerses, St., the Armenian, 173-4 New Brighton, 13 New Poems (1897), 187; its reception, 136, 150, 239-43, 253, 308; a cancelled preface, 158, 175-6, 185, 220, 237-8; mysticism in, 201, 214, 238; F. T. on, 236, 238-9, 301, 306; dedication, 236-7 New York Post, 137 Newbolt, Mr. Henry, 139, 269 Newcastle Daily Chronicle, 122 "Nocturn," 186 Notebooks, F. T.'s, 27, 227; quoted, 8, 12, 13, 18, 64, 78, 142, 175, 178, 188, 208, 228, 276-7, 283, 303-4 Nowlan, Fr., 26 n. Noyes, Mr. Alfred, 269 Nuns of the Cross and Passion, 6 Nyren, 43 Odes, occasional, 321, 332-4 Ode to the Setting Sun, 95, 95 n., 124-5, 127, 137 n., 176, 201, 211-12 "Old Fogey, An," (Andrew Lang, soi-disant), 136 Old Trafford cricket-ground, 39, 43 Opera, the, 46 Opium, F. T. and, 3, 46, 48-9, 51-3, 56-8, 63, 83, 87, 94-6, 104, 123, 163, 254-5, 321 "Orient Ode," 192, 201, 201 n., 210, 222, 238 Origen, 223 Orpen, Mr., 327 Ostade, 254 O'Sullivan, Mr. Vincent, 136, 252 Outcasts, 63-4, 74, 81-4 Owens College, Manchester, 35-6, 46, 54 Oxford Street, 61, 70, 274 Paddington, 65, 274 Paganism, 125, 205, 228 "Paganism, Old and New," 85-7, 92, 125, 268 Pain, 69, 129, 294, 295 Palace Court, Kensington, F. T. at, 24, 68, 104, 117, 123, 271, 274, 284 n. Pall Mall Gazette, 138, 146, 241 Pan, 29-30, 124 Pantasaph, F. T. at, 24, 128-9, 131-2, 143-6, 148-9, 177, 180-97, 230, 233-236, 238-9 Pantheism, 205 Panton Street, 62, 71, 74-5 "Passion of Mary, The," 46 n., 87, 88, 92, 124 Passion, The, 6, 288 Parodies, 154, 331 Patmore, Coventry, 130, 143, 275, 282, 328; F. T.'s friendship with, 146, 148-9, 189-90, 224, 233-6, 250, 312; F. T.'s affinities with, 144-5, 174, 192-3, 220-1, 223, 267; "irregular" metre of, 176-8, 193, 220; quoted, 83-4, 139, 146-8, 164, 190-1, 198, 200, 201, 209, 220, 222, 266, 306 n., 312, 317; The Poetry of Pathos and Delight, 234; Religio Poetæ, 189, 191-2; Rod, Root and Flower, 149, 192, 201, 220, 227; translation of St. Bernard, 191; The Unknown Eros, 181, 191, 222, 238; letters to, 191-3, 195, 233, 236, 238; letters from, 149, 194, 197, 221, 233 Patmore, Henry, 21 Paul, St., 220, 223 Perry, Fr. Stephen, 124, 126 Phillips, Fr. G. E., 16 Phillips, Mr. Stephen, 175 Pickpocket Hall, 187 Pico della Mirandola, 204 Pile, Mr., 274-5 Plagiarism, 168 Plevna, siege of, 9 Poe, 178 Poems (1893), 122, 129, 135-48, 158, 170, 238, 243, 341 "Poet breaking Silence, To a," 126, 133 "Poets as Prose Writers," 255, 316 Politics, 335, 339 Pope, 229, 272 "Poppy, The," 118, 341 Portiuncula, the, 185 Poverty, fair and foul, 77-8 n., 181, 284-5 Prayer, 73, 84, 104, 280, 286, 287 n. Premonstratensians, 95 Preston, 1, 5 Priesthood, F. T. and the, 5, 31-2, 33, 73 Prison, 64, 258 Probyn, Miss May, 85, 116 Prose, F. T.'s, 97-8, 135, 149, 177, 206, 267, 310, 312 Puns, 13, 326 Quantity, 176 Quiller-Couch, Sir A. T., 153, 241 Rabelais, 64 Railton, Sergeant, 19 Raleigh, Sir Walter, 48, 156, 256 Ranjitsinhji, Prince, 42 Realm, The, 141, 146 Reformation, the, 12 Refuges, 65 Religion, 30, 31, 33, 34. See Catholicism, and Mysticism Rendall, Mr. Vernon, letters to F. T., 336 "Renegade Poet on the Poet, A," 302 Reserve, F. T.'s, 7, 18, 32, 35, 74, 90, 297 "Retrospect" ("Sight and Insight"), 184, 214 Review of Reviews, 106 Reviews by F. T., 121, 124, 156-7, 168, 171, 175, 253-5, 260, 269 "Rhodes, Cecil, Ode on," 255-6, 335 Rhyl, 185 Richardson, Fr., 46 n. Richardson, Mrs. Margaret, née Thompson (the poet's sister), 1, 128, 341 Roger Bacon Society, The, 181, 183 Rook, Mr. Clarence, 253 Rossetti, Christina, 209, 224 Rossetti, D. G., quoted, 65 n., 82, 87; F. T.'s reading of, 161, 165, 268; other references, 127, 136, 154, 156, 164, 224, 239, 318 Rothschild, 67-8 Rowton House Rhymes, 93 Ruskin, 127 S., F., 25 St. Beuno's College, 185 St. James's Gazette, 135, 140, 145, 170 St. John's Wood, 45 Saturday Review, 146, 154, 233, 239 Salle, Blessed J. B. de la, 80 "Saul," an unfinished drama, 338 Scholarship, F. T.'s, 26 n., 27, 35 Science, 36, 196, 237-8 Scots Observer, 126, 262 Scott, 10, 11 Sea, the, 12-13 Seaman, Mr. Owen, 269 Seeley's (Mr. H. C.), Dragons of the Air, 157 Selected Poems (1908), 247 Self-appraisements, F. T.'s, 98, 131, 136, 158, 187, 306 Self-revelation in F. T.'s poetry, 103, 148 Selous, F. C., illustrations to Shakespeare, 11, 38 Seneca, 300 "Sere of the Leaf, The," 102-3, 302 Serendipity Shop, the, 286, 329 Set-worship, 194, 196 Seventeenth Century, 165 Shakespeare, 271; F. T.'s early reading of, 6, 10-12, 38; his metre, 177; his diction, 154-5; quotations from, or other allusions to, by F. T., 85, 112-13, 117, 133, 175, 196, 238; F. T. compared with, 138, 143, 150, 168, 244 Sharp, William, 121, 124 "She, the unknown," 73, 84 Sheehan, Canon Patrick, 143 Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 240 Shelley, F. T's reading of, 87, 92, 96, 161, 164; F. T. on, 206, 260; Essay on, 96-100; Essay on Shelley, quoted, 5-6, 17-18, 98, 217, 219; F. T.'s "Shelley" poem, 126, 128; his "Shelley" selection, 100 n.; F. T. compared with, 143, 150, 165, 167, 243, 262 Shelters, 65 Shore, Mr. W. Teignmouth, 335 Shore, Miss, 261 Shorter, Mrs. Dora Sigerson, 269 "Sight and Insight," 184, 198 Silence ("my familiar"), 7, 35, 58, 297 Simile and metaphor, 151 Simplicity, F. T.'s personal, 185, 187 "Sir Francis," 119 Sister Songs, its writing, 104-6, 152; its reception, 136, 141, 145, 154, 243-244; Meredith's epithet, 247; Wilde's appreciation, 252; F. T.'s feeling for it, 304; its actuality, 273; autobiographical, 81, 148, 168 Skating, 114 Smithfield Market, 117 Snead-Cox, Mr. J. G., 85, 120 Snowdon, 185 Socialism, 110 n. Socrates, 223 Solomon, Simeon, 323 "Song of the Hours," 95 n., 125 Sonnets, 73, 126 South African War, 9 South Kensington Museum, 105 Southampton Row, 71, 74 Southwater, 159, 349 Southwell, 167 Speaker, The, 140, 153, 240, 241 Spenser, 155, 163 Stalybridge, 39, 144 Standard Book of British Poetry, 74 Star, The, 145 Stead, W. T., 106-7 Stephanon, Lamente forre, 28-9 Stevenson, R. L., 165, 170, 297, 302 Storrington, 95-6, 111 Strand, the, 24, 71 n., 163, 278 Suckling, 165 Sun, the, and sun-worship, 210-12, 229, 238, 272-3 Sunrises and Sunsets, 131, 161, 290 Sussex, 346 Sutherland, the Duchess of, 252 Swedenborg, 206-7, 271 Swinburne, F. T's reading of, 97, 265, 268; F. T. on, 126, 178-9, 266 "Sylvia," 8, 148, 151, 349 Symons, Arthur, 144-6, 198-9, 269 Symbolism, 193-6, 211, 215, 218 Tablet, The, 99, 125, 126, 137 n., 138 "Tancred, Francis" (pseudonym of F. T.), 106 Tate, Dr., President of Ushaw, 26, 32 Taylor, Jeremy, 156 Tennyson, 101, 120, 179 n., 230, 260 Terence, 299 Texts as stimulants, 32, 68, 325-6 Thames Embankment, 24, 64, 192, 278 Theresa, St., 146 Thomas à Kempis, 225-6, 243, 283 Thomas, Mr. Edward, 198 Thomas of Celano, 181 Thompson, Dr. Charles (F. T.'s father), 1, 2, 4, 36, 54-60, 71, 107 n., 127, 144, 185-6 Thompson, Edward Healy (F. T.'s uncle), 2, 3, 14 n., 46 n., 58-9, 61, 68, 85 n., 124 Thompson family, the, 1-5 Thompson, Francis Joseph, birth, pedigree, parentage, 1-4; his paternal uncles, 2, 3; other relatives, 4, 5; childhood, 6 seq.; home-life, 7-14, 35, 54-5, 57-60, 74-5; early reading, 6, 10-12; at the seaside, 12, 13; cricket, 13, 39-45; at Ushaw, 15-21, 24-32; intention of the priesthood abandoned, 32-4; a medical student at Owens College, Manchester, 35-46; visits to London (1879 and 1882), 46, 54; illness, 46; reading de Quincey, 46; taking opium, 48-53, 56; fails in his exams., 54-6; love of music, 55; enlists, 56-7; flight from home, 57, to Manchester, 58, to London, 58, 61; odd jobs, 62-3; an outcast, 63-4; lodging-houses and refuges, 64-5; pieces of good-luck, 67-8; roofless nights, 69-70; with Mr. McMaster (the bootmaker), 70-75; a Christmas at home, 74-5; "in darkest London," 76-80; his "brave, sad, lovingest, tender thing," 81-4, 92; a meeting with the editor of Merry England, 85-90; the Meynell household, 90-2; contributes to Merry England, 92, 120-6; sent to a private hospital, 94; renunciation of opium, 94-5; at Storrington, 95; writing poetry, 95; the essay on Shelley, 96-100; return to London, 104; "The Hound of Heaven" and "Sister Songs," 104; article on General Booth's In Darkest England, 106-7; interview with Cardinal Manning, 107-8; journalism, 111-12, 117, 253-70; visits to Crawley, 112-13, 344-6; in Kensington Gardens, 114-15; at Friston, in Suffolk, 118-19; at Pantasaph, 128-33, 140, 143-48, 177, 180-97, 230-39; Poems (1893), 128-48; Sister Songs (1895), 141, 145, 149-50; friendship with Coventry Patmore, 139, 146-9, 189-97, 220-4, 233-4; his critics, 152-61; his congeners, 161-70, 174; his father's death, 185-186; his mysticism, 191-232; his attitude to Nature, 205-8; his religion, 224-7; his attitude to women, 227-32; a love-affair, 230; death of Patmore, 234-7; New Poems, 198, 201, 203, 236-43; return to London, 245; meeting with Meredith, 245-7; other friends, 247-52; writes for The Academy, 253-70, 334-6; criticisms on and meeting with W. E. Henley, 262-7; his catholic appreciation of modern literature, 265-6, 268-9; but preference for the older writers, 270-271; as a Londoner, 272-81, 284, 288; his poverty, 284-7; his loneliness, 291; bereft of song, 301-4, 306-7; was he happy or unhappy? 304-5, 329-33; his personal appearance, 327-8; writes for The Athenæum, 336; a return to opium, 342; visits to Sussex, 344-49; returns to London, and goes into hospital, 349; death, 350 Thompson, Francis Joseph, letters from, to Mother Austin (his sister Mary), 333; to Dr. Carroll, 97, 123; to Mr. Doubleday, 306 n.; to Mr. C. L. Hind, 256-61; to Mr. William Hyde, 277; to Mrs. Meynell, 130, 132-3, 159, 177, 183, 188-9, 226, 297, 312-13; to Everard Meynell, 44, 159, 328-31, 345; to Wilfrid Meynell, 85, 88, 100, 103-5, 110 n., 112, 114-17, 129, 135, 145, 180, 183, 234-5, 238, 242, 250, 316-18, 334-5, 337-8; to Coventry Patmore, 191-3, 195, 233-4, 236, 238; to Mrs. Patmore, 234; to Mrs. Saleeby (née Monica Meynell), 340-341; to Miss Agnes Tobin, 252 —— Letters to, from Father Anselm, 344-5; from Mr. W. Archer, 242; from Mother Austen (his sister Mary), 334; from Mr. J. L. Garvin, 332-3; from Mr. C. L. Hind, 264; from Mrs. Hamilton King, 132, 250; from Miss K. Douglas King, 250; from Mr. H. W. Massingham, 332, 336; from Mrs. Meynell, 129, 158; from Coventry Patmore, 149, 194, 197, 221, 233; from Mrs. Patmore, 237; from Mr. Vernon Rendall, 336; from W. T. Stead, 106; from Mrs. Tynan Hinkson, 102 Thompson, Helen (F. T. s sister), 1 n. Thompson, John Costall (F. T.'s uncle), 2, 3 Thompson, Margaret (F. T.'s sister), 1, 128 Thompson, Mary (F. T.'s sister), "Mother Austin," a nun, 1 n., 7, 8, 12-14, 39-4, 57, 59, 75, 127, 186, 287 n., 341; letter to, 333; letter from, 334 Thompson, Mary Turner, née Morton (F. T.'s mother), 1, 4, 7, 10, 46, 48-9 Thorp, Mr., 259 Times, The, 240, 319, 320 Timidity, F. T.'s, 13, 15, 32, 265 "To my Godchild," 123, 137, 162, 273 Tobin, Miss Agnes, 252 Tolstoy, 109 "Tommy," 15, 19, 27 "Tom o' Bedlam, 65, 207 Toys, F. T.'s, 8, 98 Traherne, 74, 285, 288 Traill, Mr. H. D., 144-5, 149 Tregunter Road, Fulham, 46 "Twopenny Damn, The," 139 Tyburn, 275 Tynan, Katharine (Mrs. Hinkson), 85 n., 102, 122, 137 n., 209, 302; letters to F. T., 102 "Ultima," 306 University Press, Notre Dame, Ind., 318-9 Unpublished fragments of verse, 65, 81, 161, 188, 208, 213, 236, 270, 276-7, 280, 291-3, 295 Unpublished poems, 73-4, 77-8, 292-3, 296-7 Unpunctuality, F. T.'s, 9, 33, 72, 257, 264-5, 327 Unworldliness, F. T.'s, 5, 249, 287-8 Ushaw, F. T. at, 14, 34, 127 Vaughan, Henry, 198, 209, 288 Vaughan, Cardinal, 33, 99, 283 Verlaine, 320, 322 "Veteran of Heaven, The," 169, 195 n. Vienna Café, The, 280, 303 Vulgate, the, 171 Wales, F. T. in, 24, 128-32, 143-9, 177-97, 230-9 War, fears of a general, 193 n., 339-40 Wardour Street, 70 Watson, Mr. William, 136, 145, 259 Watts, Mr. Augustine, 21 Watts-Dunton, Mr. Theodore, 165 Waugh, Mr. Arthur, 258 Weekly Register, The, 111, 113, 124, 127, 135, 137 Weekly Sun, 141 Wells, Mr. H. G., 258 Westbourne Grove, 266, 284, 286 "Westminster Drolleries," 64 Westminster Gazette, 137, 154 Whiteing, Mr. Richard, 112, 241 Whiteside, Dr., Archbishop of Liverpool, 27 Whitten, Mr. Wilfred, 71 n., 257, 337; his reminiscences of F. T., 253-4, 280-1, 303, 307 Wilde, Oscar, 127, 252 Wilkinson, Fr. Adam, 20, 24 Winefride's Well, St., 185 Wiseman, Cardinal, 23, 99, 100 Woman, F. T. on, 227-9, 231 Woman on F. T., 149 Wordsworth, quoted, 311; quoted by F. T., 87, 159; points of contact with F. T., 160, 167, 183, 325; points of opposition, 205-6; F. T.'s article on, 260 Wormwood Scrubbs, 44 Wyndham, Mr. George, 100, 160, 256

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