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6 unusual facts about Francis Thompson


Chappie Dwyer

Oxenham then went on to score 96 as an opener in Queensland's reply total of 506, which also contained a century of 132 for Francis Thompson.

Dick Barlow

Barlow will be best remembered for his batting partnership with A N Hornby, which was immortalised in nostalgic poetry by Francis Thompson.

Barlow is immortalised in one of the best-known pieces of cricket poetry, a poem called At Lord's by Francis Thompson.

Philip Elman

Researchers from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People later found the origins of the phrase in Francis Thompson's poem The Hound of Heaven.

R. H. Ives Gammell

During the war years, he began work on his book, Twilight of Painting, and also started making plans for what would become his magnum opus, a series of paintings based on Francis Thompson's poem "The Hound of Heaven."

Troubling a Star

The title comes from "The Mistress of Vision", a poem by the English poet Francis Thompson.


Miriam Gideon

Gideon composed much vocal music, setting texts by Francis Thompson, Christian Morgenstern, Anne Bradstreet, Norman Rosten, Serafin and Joaquín Quintero and others.


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