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Thomas Hood (1799-1845) was an English poet, author and humorist, known for his poems such as "The Bridge of Sighs" and "The Song of the Shirt". He was a friend and contemporary of many famous writers, such as Coleridge, Lamb, Clare and Reynolds, and the father of Tom Hood and Frances Freeling Broderip.
Thomas Hood (1799-1845) was an English poet, journalist, and humorist who wrote social-protest and comic verse. He influenced many poets in Britain, America, Germany, and Russia with his humanitarian and witty style.
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Read and analyze the works of Thomas Hood, an English poet, author, and humorist of the Romantic era. Explore his wit, satire, and social commentary on topics such as love, death, and silence.
An editor, publisher, poet, and humorist, Thomas Hood was born in London, the son of a bookseller. After his father died in 1811, Hood worked in a countinghouse until illness forced him to move to Dundee, Scotland, to recover with relatives. In 1818 he returned to London to work as an engraver.
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Thomas Hood was an English humorist, poet, and journalist who plied his craft in the Victorian era. He was linked to a number of fellow great poets with his involvement in the London literary scene. Many modern critics and scholars have labeled Hood as ‘the finest English poet’ between the periods of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Thomas Hood, the son of a bookseller, was born in the Poultry Section of London, England, in May of 1799. Poultry is now the modern-day financial district of London. His parents were Thomas Hood and Elizabeth Sands, and the family lived in Cheapside above their bookshop. Hood’s father died in 1811, and Elizabeth moved the family to Islington. While...
In 1843, Hood’s best-known piece, ‘The Song of the Shirt,’ appeared in a Christmas edition of Punch, a British weekly magazine of satire. It was originally published anonymously and became incredibly popular, especially with social-protest poets. After its publication The Times, and a number of other newspapers re-published it. The work would later...
It was in part due to his personal situation that he received a grant from the Royal Literary Fund in 1841. The organization rewarded civil pensions to literary men. A number of Hood’s friends had applied for the grant for him, knowing of his increasing debts and illness. Hood’s wife, Jane, was not much better than her husband. She, too, was ill an...
Thomas Hood (23 May 1799– 3 May 1845) was an English poet, author and humourist, best known for poems such as “The Bridge of Sighs” and “The Song of the Shirt”. Hood wrote regularly for The London Magazine, the Athenaeum, and Punch. He later published a magazine largely consisting of his own works. Hood, never robust, lapsed into invalidism by the age of 41 and died at the age of 45 ...
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