
- 922 pages
- English
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About this book
Thomas Hood was a British humorist, publisher and poet whose popular verse injected some much-needed levity and realism into early nineteenth-century literature. This volume collects a broad cross-section of his most important work, including "e;The Song of the Shirt, "e; a moving portrait of poverty that garnered widespread acclaim in its day.
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Table of contents
- THE POETICAL WORKS OF THOMAS HOOD
- Contents
- Biographical Introduction
- To Hope
- The Departure of Summer
- The Sea of Death
- To an Absentee
- Lycus the Centaur
- The Two Peacocks of Bedfont
- Hymn to the Sun
- Midnight
- To a Sleeping Child
- To Fancy
- Fair Ines
- To a False Friend
- Ode
- Sonnet
- Sonnet
- Sonnet
- To a Cold Beauty
- Sonnet
- Serenade
- Verses in an Album
- The Forsaken
- Song
- Song
- Birthday Verses
- I Love Thee
- Lines
- False Poets and True
- The Two Swans
- Song
- Autumn
- I Remember, I Remember
- The Poet's Portion
- Ode to the Moon
- Sonnet
- A Retrospective Review
- Ballad
- Time, Hope, and Memory
- Flowers
- Ballad
- Ruth
- Hero and Leander
- Ballad
- Autumn
- Ballad
- The Exile
- To —
- Ode to Melancholy
- Sonnet
- Sonnet
- Sonnet
- Sonnet
- Sonnet
- To a Child Embracing His Mother
- To —
- Ode to Rae Wilson, Esq.
- The Lee Shore
- Sonnet
- The Elm Tree
- Lear
- Sonnet
- The Song of the Shirt
- The Pauper's Christmas Carol
- The Mary
- The Lady's Dream
- The Key
- The Workhouse Clock
- The Bridge of Sighs
- The Lay of the Laborer
- Ode to Joseph Grimaldi, Senior
- An Address to the Steam Washing Company
- The Last Man
- "As it Fell Upon a Day"
- The Stag-Eyed Lady
- The Irish Schoolmaster
- Faithless Nelly Gray
- Bianca's Dream
- The Demon-Ship
- Tim Turpin
- A Sailor's Apology for Bow-Legs
- The Volunteer
- The Drowning Ducks
- A Storm at Hastings,
- The Angler's Farewell
- Ode
- A Report from Below!
- The Supper Superstition
- The Duel
- A Singular Exhibition at Somerset House
- Lines to Mary
- The Ghost
- The Fall
- Our Village
- A Public Dinner
- Sally Simpkin's Lament
- The Lost Heir
- The Fox and the Hen
- The Poacher
- A Waterloo Ballad
- A Lay of Real Life
- The Sweeps Complaint
- Agricultural Distress
- Domestic Poems
- The Green Man
- Hit or Miss
- Lieutenant Luff
- Morning Meditations
- A Plain Direction
- The Bachelor's Dream
- Rural Felicity
- A Flying Visit
- Queen Mab
- A Parthian Glance
- A True Story
- A Fairy Tale
- Craniology
- The Wee Man
- The Progress of Art
- Those Evening Bells
- The Carelesse Nurse Mayd
- Domestic Asides; or, Truth in Parentheses
- Shooting Pains
- John Day
- Huggins and Duggins
- The China-Mender
- Domestic Didactics
- Playing at Soldiers
- Mary's Ghost
- The Widow
- An Open Question
- A Black Job
- Etching Moralised
- A Tale of a Trumpet
- Endnotes