The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood [Paperback]

Thomas Hood (Author), Walter Jerrold (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 19, 2004

1906. Hood, English poet and editor of various prominent magazines and periodicals, is chiefly remembered for his humorous work (including Miss Kilmansegg, which appeared in the New Monthly Magazine). However, Hood wrote a number of serious poems for which he is also known including: the popular Song of the Shirt (published anonymously in Punch in 1843), which became a call to arms for workers protesting against industrial exploitation; The Bridge of Sighs; The Haunted House; The Elm Tree; The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies; and shorter pieces such as The Deathbed. Contents: Odes and Addresses to Great People; Whims and Oddities. First Series; Whims and Oddities. Second Series; The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems; The Epping Hunt; Comic Melodies; The Dream of Eugene Aram, the Murderer; Verses from Tylney Hall; Hood's Own: or, Laughter from Year to Year; Poems from Up the Rhine; Whimsicalities: A Periodical Gathering; Miscellaneous Uncollected Poems; and Juvenilia: The Bandit. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Editorial Reviews

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Address Delivered At The Haymarket Theatre
Address To Maria Darlington
Address To R.w. Elliston, Esquire
An Address To The Very Reverend John Ireland, D.d
Agricultural Distress
All Round My Hat
Anacreontic. By A Footman
Anacreontic. For The New Year
An Ancient Concert
Anticipation
The Apparition
The Assistant Drapers' Petition
Autumn
Bailey Ballads
The Ballad
The Beadle's Annual Address
A Black Job
The Blue Boar
A Bull
The Captain's Cow
Clubs
The Comet
A Custom House Breeze
The Dead Robbery
A Declaration
The Dessert Born
The Devil's Album
A Discovery In Astronomy
The Doctor
The Doves And The Crows
A Dream
Drinking Song
A Drop Of Gin
The Elm Tree
Epigram
Epigram
Epigram
Epigram
Epigram
Epigram
Epigram
Epigram Of A Certain Hero And Heroinne
Epigram On A Certain Equestrian Statue
Epigram On A Picture
Epigram On A Picture In The British Institution
Epigram On Depreciated Money
Epigram On Dr. Robert Elliot Of Camberwell
Epigram On Her Majesty's Visit To The City
Epigram On Mrs. Parke's Pamphlet
Epigram On The Arrangement Of The Statues
Epigram On The Chinese Treaty
Epigram On The New Half-farthings
Epigram On The Queen's Visit To The City
Epigrams. Composed On Reading A Diary Lately Published
Epistle To Miss Charlotte Reynolds
An Explanation
Fare Thee Well
A First Attempt In Rhyme
A Flying Visit
The Forge
The Fox And The Hen
Fragment. Probably Written During Illness
Fragment; Evidently Supposed To Be Spoken By Mrs. Reynolds
Fragments. The Lay Of The Lark
Fugitive Lines On Pawning My Watch
The Green Man
Hints To Paul Pry
Hit Or Miss
Hymeneal Retrospections
I Cannot Bear A Gun
John Jones
The Key
The Knight And The Dragon
A Lament For The Decline Of Chivalry
The Lament Of Toby, The Learned Pig
Lamis
The Lark And The Rook
Laying Down The Law
Lines
Lines In The Celebration Of Peace
Lines To Miss F. Kemble
Little O'p. - An African Fact
Lord Durham's Return
The Lord Mayor's Show
Love And Lunacy
Love Lane
Magnetic Musings
The Mary
A Morning Thought
Night Song - Written At Sea
Ode To Doctor Hahnemann
Ode To Dr. Kitchner
Ode To H. Bodkin, Esq
Ode To J.s. Buckingham, Esq., M.p
Ode To Messrs. Green, Hollond, And Monck Mason
Ode To Mr. M'adam
Ode To Richard Martin, Esquire
Ode To Sir Andrew Agnet, Bart
The Old Poler's Warning
On A Certain Locality
On A Late Immersion
On A Native Singer
On A Royal Demise
On Lieutenant Eyre's Narrative Of The Disasters At Cabul
On The Death Of Sir Walter Scott
On The Portrait Of A Lady
Our Lady's Chapel
Over The Way
Pair'd, Not Matched
Party Spirit
The Pauper's Christmas Carol
Play On, Ye Timid Rabbits, Fr. Tylney Hall
The Poacher
Poem, From The Polish
Poetry, Prose, And Worse
The Pursuit Of Letters
A Reflection
A Rise At The Father Of Angling
The Romance Of Cologne
Rondeau
Rural Felicity
The Season
The Ship Launch
Sir John Bowring
Skipping. A Mystery
Song
Song
Song For The Nineteenth
Song To My Wife
Sonnet
Sonnet
Sonnet
Sonnet
Sonnet To A Sonnet
Sonnet To Vauxhall
Sonnet, By R.m.
Sonnet. Written In A Workhouse
Sonnet: A Somnambulist
Stanzas
Stanzas
Stanzas Composed In A Shower-bath
Stanzas On Coming Of Age
Stanzas Written Under The Fear Of Baliffs
The Steam Service
Suggested By A Bunch Of English Grapes
Suggestions By Stream
The Sun Was Slumbering In The West
The Surplice Question
The Sweep's Complaint
The Sweets Of Youth
A Table Of Errata
A Tale Of Temper
To *****. With A Flask Of Rhine Water
To A Sleeping Child
To C. Dickens, Esq
To Miss Kelly
To My Dear Marianne
To The Reviewers
Trimmer's Exercise
The United Family
The University Feud
`up The Rhine'
Valentine's Day
Vauxhall
Verses Mistaken For An Incediary Song
The Vision
A Waterloo Ballad
`what Can An Old Man Do But Die'
The Workhouse Clock
Written On The Back Of The Foregoing
Ye Tourists And Travellers
Youth And Age
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Product Details

• Paperback: 796 pages
• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC (August 19, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1417945540
• ISBN-13: 978-1417945542
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 1.6 inches
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