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Thomas Hood

English poet and humorist (1799–1845)

For other people named Thomas Hood, see Thomas Hood (disambiguation).

Thomas Hood

Born	(1799-05-23)23 May 1799 London, England
Died	3 May 1845(1845-05-03) (aged 45) London, England
Occupation	Poet and author
Nationality	British
Period	1820s–1840s
Genre	Poetry and fiction
Spouse	Jane Reynolds (m. )
Children	Tom Hood Frances Freeling Broderip

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. He later published a magazine largely consisting of his own works. Hood, never robust, had 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.^[1] Hood was the father of the playwright and humorist Tom Hood (1835–1874)^[2]

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Tom Hood

English humorist and playwright (1835–1874)

For other people named Thomas Hood, see Thomas Hood (disambiguation).

Thomas Hood (19 January 1835 – 20 November 1874) was an English humorist, playwright and author. He was the son of the poet and author Thomas Hood. Pen and Pencil Pictures (1857) was the first of his illustrated books. His most successful novel was Captain Master's Children (1865).

Biography

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] There he studied for the Church and passed all the examinations for the degree of BA, but did not graduate.^{[citation needed]}

At Oxford, he wrote his Farewell to the Swallows (1853) and Pen and Pencil Pictures (1854). He began to write for the Liskeard Gazette

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Hood, Thomas

Hood, Thomas (1799–1845), poet and humorist, was born on 23 May 1799 at 31 Poultry, London. His father, also Thomas Hood (1759–1811), bookseller and publisher, was a Scot from Tayside. His mother, Elizabeth Sands (d. 1821), came from a well-known London family of engravers. Hood was the third of six children, the second of two sons. The family moved to Islington, then pleasantly rural. Hood attended a dame-school in Tokenhouse Yard and, later, Dr Wanostracht's Alfred House Academy in Camberwell. When Hood was twelve both his father and brother died and he moved to a modest day school run by an elderly Scot, afterwards gratefully remembered. By fourteen he was working in a City office but became ill and, possibly apprenticed to his uncle Robert Sands, or Le Keux, began to learn engraving. When his health deteriorated in 1815 he was sent north to relatives in Dundee, where he stayed for about two years. He was already writing prose and verse and contributing anonymously to local papers.

Hood returned to London in the autumn of 1817, much improved in health. He was