Thomas Hood - Poems Comic and Serious

by Thomas Hood, Peter Thorogood (Editor)

Humorous poems of Thomas Hood, an English poet and editor of various prominent magazines and periodicals.

Genres: Poetry

120 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1996

About the author

Thomas Hood was an English poet, author and humourist, best known for poems such as The Bridge of Sighs and The Song of the Shirt. Hood wrote regularly for The London Magazine, the Athenaeum, and Punch. He later published a magazine largely consisting of his own works. Hood, never robust, lapsed into invalidism by the age of 41 and died at the age of 45. William Michael Rossetti in 1903 called him "the finest English poet" between the generations of Shelley and Tennyson. Hood was the father of playwright and humorist Tom Hood (1835 – 1874).

Reviews

[Manny]

He dreamt that he saw the Buffalant,
And the spottified Dromedaraffe,
The blue Camelotamus, lean and gaunt,
And the wild Tigeroceros calf.

The maned Liodillo loudly roared,
And the Peccarbok whistled its whine,
The Chinchayak leapt on the dewy sward,
As it hunted the pale Baboopine.

He dreamt that he met the Crocoghau,
As it swam in the Stagnolent Lake;
But everything that in dreams he saw
Came of eating too freely of cake.

[Alexandra · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hood is one of my favourite poets - his ability to use humour to raise important social issues of his day is unmatched.

Unfortunately this collection omits many of my favourite poems.