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(More customer reviews)Francis Thompson, as poet and man, was beset by many frailties. Opium addiction almost drove him to despair. The "lost diary" (a very realistic novella) recounts in the first person, Thompson's rescue from homelessness by the eminent critic Wilfrid Meynell, and his rehabilitative retreat in 1889 at the Norbertine abbey of Storrington. In a sparse but handsome landscape, in an atmosphere of pure prayer, supported and encouraged by holy monks, Thompson struggles with painful memories of his immediate past as one of the destitute in the rain-soaked streets of London. Visions of horror plague him, as does the memory of a secret guilt which estranges him from joy. But there are glimpses of the Beatific Vision, glimpses which survive in poems that are sometimes baroque and sometimes childlike. A man who has spent a good deal of his life running from God at the peril of his health, discovers he cannot outrun God, who pursues him with a relentless mercy. Poignancy, reality, and love of the Divine -- these are the hallmarks of Robert Waldron's coruscating narrative in the voice of Francis Thompson.
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