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The Works of Thomas Hood: Comic and Serious in Prose and Verse With all the Original Illustrations Part Three
The Works of Thomas Hood Comic and Serious in Prose and Verse With all the Original Illustrations Part Three Author:Thomas Hood 1870. Volume Three of Ten. 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 ... more »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. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.« less