Editing The Hound of Heaven (section)

==Influence==
* Actor [[Dean Jones (actor)|Dean Jones]] used the line "Under Running Laughter" from the first stanza as the title of his memoir.
* Thompson's work was praised by [[G. K. Chesterton]], and it was also an influence on [[J. R. R. Tolkien]], who presented a paper on Thompson in 1914.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Garth |first=John |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54047800 |title=Tolkien and the Great War : the threshold of Middle-earth |date=2003 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=0-00-711952-6 |location=London |oclc=54047800}}</ref>
* In 1933, [[Halliday Sutherland]] used a phrase from the second line of the poem as the title of his best-selling autobiography, ''The Arches of the Years''.
* In 1935, [[Paramahansa Yogananda]], an Indian spiritual master, included "The Hound of Heaven" in one of his phonographic albums, ''Songs of My Heart''. Today, his organization, [[Self-Realization Fellowship]], offers this album in the form of a CD. [[List of direct disciples of Yogananda|Kamala Silva]], a purported direct disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda, received the gift of a printing of the "Hound of Heaven" from Yogananda and he also recited it for her.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAo_0IZBms8&list=PL3492C0AB100A45E2&index=22 | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/oAo_0IZBms8| archive-date=2021-12-11 | url-status=live|title=Songs of My Heart: The Hound of Heaven | date=19 August 2010| via=[[YouTube]]|access-date=2013-07-31 }}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Silva|first=Kamala|title=The Flawless Mirror|publisher=Kamala|year=1964|isbn=978-1565890541|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/flawlessmirror00kama}}</ref>
* A short passage from the poem appears in chapter four of [[Daphne du Maurier]]'s ''[[Rebecca (novel)|Rebecca]]'' (1938).<ref>du Maurier, Daphne, ''Rebecca'', 2003, London, [[Virago Press]]</ref>
* "The Hound of Heaven" inspired Norwegian composer [[Fartein Valen]] (1887&ndash;1952) to compose his ''Piano Sonata No. 2'', Op. 38 (1941).<ref>{{cite book|last=Gurvin|first=Olav |title=Fartein Valen: En banebryter i norsk musikk |publisher=Harald Lyche & Co's musikkforlag|year=1962|pages=134–136|url=https://www.nb.no/items/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2007041301007#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&xywh=-3423%252C-203%252C9287%252C4003}}</ref> The sonata's three movements reflect different parts of Thompson's poem. The piece has been recorded by [[Glenn Gould]].
* Thompson's poem is mentioned and quoted in [[Robert Frost]]'s 1947 play ''A Masque of Mercy''.
* "The Hound of Heaven" was used as an example of the hero's "refusal of the call" to adventure in [[Joseph Campbell]]'s book, ''[[The Hero with a Thousand Faces]]'' (1949)
* In 1955, a love letter from Suzanne Kempe to her philosophy lecturer, [[Sydney Sparkes Orr]], quotes excerpts from the poem. Their affair was later brought to trial in Tasmania.<ref>Stoljar, Jeremy, ''The Australian Book of Great Trials'' 2011, Murdoch Books Australia</ref>
* Thompson's poem is the source of the phrase, "with all deliberate speed," used by the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] in [[Brown v. Board of Education#Brown II|''Brown II'']] (1955), the remedy phase of the famous decision on [[school integration in the United States|school desegregation]].<ref>Chen, Jim. [https://ssrn.com/abstract=778884 ''Poetic Justice''], 29 [[Cardozo Law Review]] (2007)</ref>
* Thompson's poem was the inspiration for a series of 23 paintings by the American painter [[R. H. Ives Gammell]] (1893–1981), ''A Pictorial Sequence Painted by R. H. Ives Gammell Based on The Hound of Heaven'', which was in planning by 1941 and completed in 1956.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Grafe|first=Steven L.|date=March 2013|title=The Hound of Heaven [gallery guide]|url=https://www.maryhillmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/hound_of_heaven_flyer.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200920200001/https://www.maryhillmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/hound_of_heaven_flyer.pdf|archive-date=20 September 2020|website=Maryhill Museum of Art}}</ref> A reading of ''The Psychology of the Unconscious'' by [[Carl Jung|C. G. Jung]] showed Gammell a way in which he might give visual form to Thompson's poem.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Gammell|first=R. H. Ives|date=1956|title=Foreword [to the series]|url=http://tfaoi.org/aa/5aa/5aa119a.htm|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200824175621/http://tfaoi.org/aa/5aa/5aa119a.htm|archive-date=24 August 2020|website=Traditional Fine Arts Organization}}</ref>
* The last stanza is included by [[Elizabeth Goudge]] in her anthology of poems, hymns, prayers and reflections ''A Book of Comfort'', Part III "The Comfort of Faith": "The Finding" (1964). 
* "The Hound of Heaven" is the fifth chapter in [[Robert L. Short]]'s 1965 book ''[[The Gospel According to Peanuts]]'' where he describes [[Snoopy]] as a "little Christ" carrying out "Christ's ambivalent work of humbling the exalted and exalting the humble."<ref>Sarah Boxer, "Charles M. Schulz, 'Peanuts' Creator, Dies at 77" ''The New York Times'' – On This Day (February 14, 2000)</ref>
* In [[A. J. Cronin]]'s novel, ''[[A Pocketful of Rye]]'' (1969), the protagonist Carroll reads the poem as a young man, forgets it, and suffers from a recurring nightmare that finally leads to his conversion.
* In 1970, Canadian artist [[William Kurelek]] used lines from "The Hound of Heaven" as titles for his "Nature, Poor Stepdame, A Series of Sixteen Farm Paintings"
* In 1975 "The Hound of Heaven" was mentioned in the suicide note of [[George R. Price]], a geneticist who pioneered the evolutionary theory of [[altruism]] and suicide (among other things), before becoming a committed Christian and giving away all his possessions to the poor.<ref>{{cite book|last=Oren|first=Harman |title=The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|year=2011|isbn=978-0393339994}}</ref>
* The [[Christian alternative rock]] band [[Daniel Amos]] wrote a song titled ''Hound of Heaven'' on their 1978 album ''[[Horrendous Disc]]'' that is based on the Thompson poem.<ref>Barry Alfonso, ''The Billboard Guide to Contemporary Christian Music'' Watson-Guptil Publications (2002) {{ISBN|0-8230-7718-7}}</ref><ref>[http://www.danielamos.com/articles/rhorrendous.html Review of ''Horrendous Disc'']</ref>
* [[Contemporary Christian music]] artist [[Michael Card]] also wrote and recorded a song called "Hound of Heaven" based on Thompson's poem for his 1981 debut album ''First Light''.
* Lines from the poem are recited between the discussion during the last scene in "The last enemy", which is the 2nd episode, 3rd season of ''[[Inspector Morse (TV series)|Inspector Morse]]'' (1989).
* In 2001 [[Ken Bruen]] cites the poem admiringly in his novel ''The Guards''.<ref>Bruen, ''The Guards'' (NY: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2001), p. 108.</ref>
* In 2002, Katherine A. Powers, literary columnist for the ''Boston Globe'', called ''Hound of Heaven'' "perhaps the most beloved and ubiquitously taught poem among American Catholics for over half a century".<ref>[https://www.patheos.com/blogs/mcnamarasblog/2013/11/catholic-poetry-the-hound-of-heaven-by-francis-thompson-1859-1907.html McNamara, Pat. "Catholic Poetry", McNamara's Blog, Patheos, November 16, 2013]</ref> 
* "The Hound of Heaven" is the first chapter in [[John Stott]]'s book ''Why I am a Christian'' (2003) in which he confesses that he is a Christian not because of the influence of his parents and teachers, nor to his own personal decision, but to being relentlessly pursued by 'the Hound of Heaven', that is, Jesus Christ himself.<ref>Stott, John, ''Why I am a Christian'', 2003, Inter-Varsity Press</ref>
* The poem is mentioned and lines quoted in the novel ''Escape from Hell'' (2009) by [[Larry Niven]] and [[Jerry Pournelle]]
* The main character is reading a book by this name in the first episode of the Irish TV series ''[[Jack Taylor (TV series)|Jack Taylor]]''.
* In describing her journey from atheism and agnosticism to devout Christianity, Fox News commentator [[Kirsten Powers]] said, "The Hound of Heaven had pursued me and caught me...."<ref>Kristen Powers, ''[http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2013/november/fox-news-highly-reluctant-jesus-follower-kirsten-powers.html Fox News' Highly Reluctant Jesus Follower]'', October 22, 2013, Christianity Today</ref>
* In 2014, [[N. D. Wilson]] wrote and directed a short film based upon the poem, titled "The Hound of Heaven".
* In April 2020, in an interview with [[Phoebe Waller-Bridge]] on his show ''[[The Late Show with Stephen Colbert]]'', [[Stephen Colbert]] told her that he thought the fox that appeared in her series ''[[Fleabag]]'' was the Hound of Heaven, which appeared to astound and delight Waller-Bridge.<ref>{{cite web | last = Colbert | first = Stephen |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXOzy6M4g20&feature=youtu.be&t=32 | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/fXOzy6M4g20| archive-date=2021-12-11 | url-status=live|via=YouTube |title=Colbert's Meaning of The Fox - Fleabag | date = 18 April 2020 |access-date=2020-05-09 }}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Chitwood |first1=Adam |title=Watch: Stephen Colbert Stuns Phoebe Waller-Bridge with His Interpretation of the 'Fleabag' Fox |url=https://collider.com/stephen-colbert-phoebe-waller-bridge-fleabag-fox-explained/ |website=Collider |date=April 17, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Ricci |first1=Kimberly |title=Stephen Colbert's Theory About The 'Fleabag' Fox Leaves Phoebe Waller-Bridge 'Completely Blown Away' |url=https://uproxx.com/tv/stephen-colbert-fleabag-fox-theory/ |website=Uproxx |date=April 17, 2020}}</ref>

* Five lines from the poem were used in a 1989 episode of ''[[Inspector Morse (TV series)|Inspector Morse]]'', ''The Last Enemy''.  
** "...My mangled youth lies dead beneath the heap. / My days have crackled and gone up in smoke, / Have puffed and burst as sun-starts on a stream. / Yea, faileth now even dream / The dreamer, and the lute the lutanist...."