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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 .
Hood was born at Lake House, Leytonstone, England, the son of the poet Thomas Hood and his wife Jane (née Reynolds) (1791–1846). [1] His elder sister was the children's writer Frances Freeling Broderip. [1] [2] After attending University College School and Louth Grammar School, he entered Pembroke College, Oxford, in 1853. [3]
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Although Thomas Hood (1799–1845) is usually regarded as a humorous poet, towards the end of his life, when he was on his sick bed, he wrote a number of poems commenting on contemporary poverty. These included "The Song of the Shirt", "The Bridge of Sighs" and "The Song of the Labourer". [1] "The Bridge of Sighs" is particularly well-known ...
Hood was born in Half Moon Street, Piccadilly, Westminster, London, on 24 October 1820, and baptised 6 May 1821 at St. George's Church, Hanover Square, [1] the son of Thomas Hood, a servant, and Martha his wife.
Thomas Hood (1799–1845) was an English poet, author and humorist. Thomas Hood may also refer to: Thomas Hood Hood, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council; Thomas Hood (mathematician) (1556–1620), first lecturer in mathematics appointed in England; Thomas Hood (mayor) (died 1702), mayor of New York 1701–1702
Portrait of Eugene Aram, from The Newgate Calendar. Eugene Aram (1704 – 16 August 1759) was an English philologist, but also infamous as the murderer celebrated by Thomas Hood in his ballad The Dream of Eugene Aram, and by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in his 1832 novel Eugene Aram.
Broderip, second daughter of Thomas Hood, the poet, who died in 1845, by his wife, Jane Reynolds, who died in 1846, was born at Winchmore Hill, Middlesex, in 1830. [2] She was named after her father's friend, Sir Francis Freeling, the secretary to the general post office. Her younger brother was the humourist Tom Hood. [3]