Thomas Hood
Thomas Hood
Thomas Hoodwas 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth23 May 1799
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,/ No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, - November!
behind burn great leave letters men oft ought pages remind
Lives" of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn