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Thomas Hood (23 May 1799 – 3 May 1845) was an English poet, author and humorist, best known for poems such as "The Bridge of Sighs" and "The Song of the Shirt". Hood wrote regularly for The London Magazine, Athenaeum, and Punch. He later published a magazine largely consisting of his own works.
May 19, 2024 · Thomas Hood was an English poet, journalist, and humorist whose humanitarian verses, such as “The Song of the Shirt” (1843), served as models for a whole school of social-protest poets, not only in Britain and the United States but in Germany and Russia, where he was widely translated.
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.
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 (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.
Thomas Hood, a poet, journalist, and humorist, was born in London’s Poultry section, now the city’s financial center, on May 23, 1799, to Elizabeth (née Sands) and Thomas Hood Sr., a London-based bookseller.
In this Memory of Thomas Hood I have printed his last letter, and quoted his latest words. They are such as must, in the estimation of all readers, raise him even higher than he yet stands. The world owes him much; Humanity is his debtor; and who will not exclaim, borrowing from another poet —
Dec 24, 2004 · Despite the contemporary popularity of his triple-decker novel Tylney Hall (1834) and his reputation as a humourist, Tom Hood is best known as the author of " The Song of the Shirt ," which he published anonymously in the extra Christmas number of London's newest and most celebrated comic weekly magazine, Punch, in 1843.
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Encouraged by the early success of his first volumes of comic verse, Hood published a two-volume collection of short stories titled National Tales in 1827; unfortunately, just as his attempts to...
