Talk:Francis W. Tancred

About "minor" qualifier

Perhaps if he is sufficiently minor there should not be a page for him but only a mention in a larger article; afterall, there are pages nominated for deletion every day on the basis of "this person is not sufficiently notable to be included in Wikipedia". Courtland 16:53, 2005 Feb 21 (UTC)

Reference material

If there is any reference material available, could it be added? If you would prefer, just deposit (on-line accessible) reference links here and I can add the information myself later. Courtland 14:06, 2005 Feb 26 (UTC)

• Not really. I got this little from Print references on The Cantos (he is mentioned in that poem). I intend rooting through some Yeats biographies for further info, as he was a regular at that poet's 'at homes'. Here is one useful online ref: http://themargins.net/bib/A/03.htm Filiocht 08:43, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)

Pseudonym

"Francis Tancred" was a pseudonym used by Francis Thompson. I can't find any evidence that a real Francis Tancred (with or without the "W") existed. Phil Bridger (talk) 23:17, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Do you have a source? The best I can find is http://www.archive.org/stream/lifeoffrancistho00meyn/lifeoffrancistho00meyn_djvu.txt , which isn't as definitive as I'd like. --Ronz (talk) 23:16, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

This can't be the same person, if Thompson's death year is correct. According to this source [1], Tancred was at meetings of a group of poets in 1909, spending hours with T.E. Hulme searching for just the right phrase for haiku poems and taking in Ezra Pound's cape and flaming red beard. These are not the activities of mouldering dead people. -- JohnWBarber (talk) 00:02, 25 November 2009 (UTC)