| The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood Contributor(s): Hood, Thomas (Author), Jerrold, Walter (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1162726865 ISBN-13: 9781162726861 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $53.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History - Literary Collections - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 821.7 |
| Physical Information: 1.58" H x 6" W x 9" (2.30 lbs) 794 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |