“The poetry of solitude stalks embodied as a sylvan toxophilite who goes…” — Maurice Thompson

“The poetry of solitude stalks embodied as a sylvan toxophilite who goes alone into a primeval grove.”

The solitary archer as a walking figure of lyric isolation · Essay, An Archer on the Kankakee

About Maurice Thompson

9 September 1844–15 February 1901

James Maurice Thompson arrived in this world on September 9, 1844, in the modest hamlet of Fairfield, Indiana, nestled within Franklin County, where his father served as a Baptist minister. The boy who would grow into one of the most versatile literary figures of the late nineteenth century spent his earliest years in…

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