Whims and Oddities, in Prose and Verse: Second Series, with Forty Original .
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The Choice Works of Thomas Hood in Prose and Verse
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Hood's Own; Or, Laughter from Year to Year. Being a Further Collection of His Wit and Humour
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Thomas Hood was an English poet, author and humorist, best known for poems such as "The Bridge of Sighs" and "The Song of the Shirt".
Background
He was born in London on the 23rd of May 1799 to Thomas Hood and Elizabeth Sands in the Poultry (Cheapside) above his father's bookshop.
Hood's paternal family had been Scottish farmers from the village of Errol near Dundee. The elder Hood was a partner in the business of Verner, Hood and Sharp, a member of the Associated Booksellers. Hood's son, Tom Hood, claimed that his grandfather had been the first to open up the book trade with America and he had great success with new editions of old books.
Career
The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies (1827) and a dramatic romance, Lamia, published later, belong to this time.
There was much true poetry in the verse, and much sound sense and keen observation in the prose of these works; but the poetical feeling and lyrical facility of the one, and the more solid qualities of the other, seemed best employed when they were subservient to his rapid wit.
Under that somewhat frivolous title he treated all the leading events of the day in a fine spirit of caricature, entirely free from grossness and vulgarity, without a trait of personal malice, and with an under-current of true sympathy and honest purpose that will preserve these papers, like the sketches of Hogarth, long after the events and manners they illustrate have passed from the minds of men.
Now it is true that the critic must be unconscious of some of the subtlest charms and nicest delicacies of language who would exclude from humorous writing all those impressions and surprises which depend on the use of the diverse sense of words.
In another annual called the Gem appeared the poem on the story of " Eugene Aram, " which first manifested the full extent of that poetical vigour which seemed to advance just in proportion as his physical health declined.
Woman, in her wasted life, in her hurried death, here stands appealing to the society that degrades her, with a combination of eloquence and poetry, of forms of art at once instantaneous and permanent, and with great metrical energy and variety.
Nine years after a monument, raised by public subscription, in the cemetery of Kensal Green, was inaugurated by Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton) with a concourse of spectators that showed how well the memory of the poet stood the test of time.
Artisans came from a great distance to view and honour the image of the popular writer whose best efforts had been dedicated to the cause and the sufferings of the workers of the world; and literary men of all opinions gathered round the grave of one of their brethren whose writings were at once the delight of every boy and the instruction of every man who read them.
This was the lesson that Thomas Hood left behind him.
The house where Hood died, No. 28 Finchley Road, in the St. John's Wood area of London, now has a blue plaque.
Achievements
Hood was associated with the Athenaeum, started in 1828 by J. Silk Buckingham, and he was a regular contributor for the rest of his life.
He later published a magazine largely consisting of his own works.
His installation into this congenial post at once introduced him to the best literary society of the time; and in becoming the associate of Charles Lamb, Cary, de Quincey, Allan Cunningham, Troctor, Talfourd, Hartley Coleridge, the peasant-poet Clare and other contributors to the magazine, he gradually developed his own intellectual powers, and enjoyed that happy intercourse with superior minds for which his cordial and genial character was so well adapted, and which he has described in his best manner in several chapters of Hood's Own.
Personality
Hood, never robust, lapsed into invalidism by the age of 41 and died at the age of 45.
Quotes from others about the person
On the death of her husband in 1811 Mrs Hood removed to Islington, where Thomas Hood had a schoolmaster who appreciated his talents, and, as he says, " made him feel it impossible not to take an interest in learning while he seemed so interested in teaching. "
William Michael Rossetti in 1903 called him "the finest English poet" between the generations of Shelley and Tennyson.
Connections
He had married in 1825, and Odes and Addresses-his first work-was written in conjunction with his brother-in-law Mr J. H. Reynolds, the friend of Keats.
This was done without delay, and the pension was continued to his wife and family after his death, which occurred on the 3rd of May 1845.
