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3 unusual facts about The Hound of Heaven


The Hound of Heaven

Thompson's poem is also the source of the phrase, "with all deliberate speed," used by the Supreme Court in Brown II, the remedy phase of the famous decision on school desegregation.

The Pictorial Sequence is currently housed at the Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale, Washington, USA.

The Christian alternative rock band Daniel Amos wrote a song titled Hound of Heaven on their 1978 album Horrendous Disc that is based on the Thompson poem.


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."


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