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Sister Songs: An Offering to Two Sisters
About this book
A long poem by the Victorian English poet Francis Thompson, presented as an offering to two sisters. It suits readers interested in late nineteenth-century English religious and lyric poetry.
Francis Thompson
Francis Joseph Thompson was an English poet and Catholic mystic. At the behest of his father, a doctor, he entered medical school at the age of 18, but at 26 left home to pursue his talent as a writer and poet. He spent three years on the streets of London, supporting himself with menial labour, becoming addicted to opium which he took to relieve a nervous problem.
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