biography
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| (1859–1907)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Preston, Lancashire, NW England, UK. He studied for the priesthood, turned to medicine, but failed to graduate. He was rescued from poverty, ill health, and opium addiction by Wilfrid and Alice Meynell, to whom he had sent some poems for Meynell's magazine Merry England. His later work was mainly religious in theme; it includes the well-known ‘The Hound of Heaven’. |
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