Contents
| Chapter | Page | |
| I. | The Child | [1] |
| II. | The Boy | [15] |
| III. | Manchester and Medicine | [35] |
| IV. | London Streets | [61] |
| V. | The Discovery | [85] |
| VI. | Literary Beginnings | [111] |
| VII. | "Poems" | [135] |
| VIII. | Of Words; of Origins; of Metre | [152] |
| IX. | At Monastery Gates | [180] |
| X. | Mysticism and Imagination | [198] |
| XI. | Patmore's Death, and "New Poems" | [233] |
| XII. | Friends and Opinions | [245] |
| XIII. | The Londoner | [272] |
| XIV. | Communion and Excommunion | [291] |
| XV. | Characteristics | [308] |
| XVI. | The Closing Years | [316] |
| XVII. | Last Things | [339] |
| Index | [353] | |
Illustrations
| Francis Thompson in 1895 | [Frontispiece] | ||
| His Birthplace | Facing | page | [4] |
| Francis, his Sisters and their Dolls, 1870 | " | " | [12] |
| St. Cuthbert's College, Ushaw | " | " | [26] |
| Francis Thompson in 1875 | " | " | [34] |
| Francis Thompson in 1877 | " | " | [54] |
| No. 47 Palace Court | " | " | [134] |
| Cast of the Poet's Hand | " | " | [144] |
| His Parents | " | " | [186] |
| "Mr. Thompson of Fleet Street" | " | " | [256] |
| (Drawn by Everard Meynell, 1903) | |||
| The Life Mask, 1905 | " | " | [316] |
| Francis Thompson in 1907 | " | " | [328] |
| (Drawn by the Hon. Neville Lytton) | |||
| The Memorial at Owens College | " | " | [344] |