Life of Saint Ignatius some years before his death accepted it with an alacrity not always attending the set task. I f, as was often said of him, he was a seventeenthcentury Poet born into the nineteenth, he may be supposed to have had almost a contemporarys affinity with the age in which the Society of Jesus set forth. Moreover he brought to his biography the sympathy of genius with genius. Original research was beside his plan; he purposed to tell if he could, to tell better a story thrice told by others. A familiar figure in the Library of the British Museum he accordingly became; and Oxford Street was meditatively paced by him many a night with some Ignatian volume the Life by Stewart Rose for choice tucked tight beneath his arm. When Francis Thompson died in the November of 1907, he was already famous; and it became a question whether the master mind of many a creation in poetry could be fairly gauged by a biography in prose. A perusal of the manuscript, which he had finally completed, put all doubt at rest. An appointed labour it might have been; it had proved to be a labour of love. I ts pages evade the dulness of a duty painfully performed. Moreover, this story of a great Revival, carries with it an invitation to our own languishing day.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don"t occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books" Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org