The Complete Poetical Works Of Thomas Hood - Couverture souple

Hood, Thomas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1417945540 ISBN 13 : 9781417945542

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing Co, 2004

Synopsis

The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood is a collection of poems written by the renowned English poet, Thomas Hood. This book includes all of Hood's works, spanning from his earliest poems to his final pieces. Hood's poetry is known for its wit, humor, and satire, and this collection features some of his most famous works, such as ""The Song of the Shirt"" and ""The Bridge of Sighs."" Hood's poems often comment on social issues of his time, such as poverty and the plight of the working class. The book also includes a biographical introduction, written by Hood's son, which provides insight into the poet's life and work. This collection is a must-read for fans of Hood's poetry and for anyone interested in 19th-century English literature.1906. 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 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. Contents: Odes and Addresses to Great People; Whims and Oddities. First Series; Whims and Oddities. Second Series; The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems; The Epping Hunt; Comic Melodies; The Dream of Eugene Aram, the Murderer; Verses from Tylney Hall; Hood's Own: or, Laughter from Year to Year; Poems from Up the Rhine; Whimsicalities: A Periodical Gathering; Miscellaneous Uncollected Poems; and Juvenilia: The Bandit. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In this volume is given a fuller collection of the poetical writings of Thomas Hood than has hitherto been published ;many as have been the editions they have varied in the way in which pieces have been overlooked or omitted from considerations of space or carelessness. Besides bringing together all that is available from earlier collections, the Editor has recovered from the periodicals for which Hood wrote a few poems which have hitherto escaped notice; in such cases, however, he has only taken pieces that vrere indubitably Hood sresisting the temptation to swell llieir numbers by others for which the only evidence for ascription is internal. In addition he has had the good fortune to obtain half a dozen new poems from manuscript one of these, it is true, had been given before, but only in an incomplete form. p Afew words should be said about the arrangement of the poems in this edition, an arrangement which has been the result of careful cone ideration consequent upon the inconsistencies met with in other co Ueci tions. It has for sixty years been the custom to divide Hood spoetical Jwritings into comic and serious ,or into serious poems and poems :i of wit and humour This was done in Moxon seditions shortly after Hood sdeath, it was done by Samuel Lucas twenty years later, and the 7arbitrary differentiation, was maintained by Canon A inger in the two J2 volumes of selections which he issued in the Eversley Series in 1897. That it is an arbitrary form of classification may be seen by comparing some of those earlier editions, in which we find that one editor includes poems in the serious section which another allots to the comic ,and vice versa. Lucas, to cite but one example, puts Miss Kilmansegg in the latter, while A inger puts it in the former. Certain of Hood spoems are definitely comic and others are definitely serious in both thought and treatment,
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing Co
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1417945540
• ISBN 13: 9781417945542
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 796
• Éditeur: Jerrold Walter
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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