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This book is a poignant and inspiring story about the great poet Francis Thompson. Addicted to opium as a young man and reduced to homelessness on the streets of London, the poet, in a last effort to regenerate himself, sends to the editor of a Catholic monthly samples of his writing. Months pass before the editor reads the soiled manuscript; he immediately perceives its genius and sets out to find the young poet but to no avail. He publishes the poetry in the hopes that Thompson will contact him.The Hound of Heaven at My Heels is a fictional reconstruction of the poet's lost diary; it is a heart-breaking and soul-lifting account of his spiritual, psychological, and physical regeneration. It is the story of a young man who finally finds his soul and his vocation.
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Robert Garrard
reviewed The hound of heaven at my heels on September 13, 2014 The hound of heaven at my heels
A brilliant epistolary novel imagining what the Francis Thompson went through during his stay in a monastery in Storrington, Sussex. Waldron's novel enlightens so much within Thompson's great poem "The Hound of Heaven" … a man's struggle with failure and addiction, his desire God thwarted by rumination on his past. It also brings one into the experiences of a poet as he lives out St. Augustine's famous line: "You stir us so that praising you may bring us joy, because you have made us and drawn us to yourself, and our heart is unquiet until it rests in you."
Why does one resist God's draw when he tells us that "my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."? Are we afraid to take up that which truly heals? It could be that one does not want to face the pain that sometimes comes while healing. Thompson notes, in this his imagined diary, "How many among us, after repeated lessonings of experience, refuse to comprehend that there is no special love without special pain!"
Read this short novel, or have someone read it to you. Then read the poem "The Hound of Heaven". And you may wonder, as I do, why I run from that which I am truly seeking.
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