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• Hood,Thomas — Hood, Thomas. 1799 1845. British poet and editor who wrote comic and topical verse, including “The Dream of Eugene Aram” (1829) and “The Song of the Shirt” (1843). * * * …   Universalium

• Hood, Thomas — ▪ British poet born May 23, 1799, London died May 3, 1845, London  English poet, journalist, and humorist whose humanitarian verses, such as “The Song of the Shirt” (1843), served as models for a whole school of social protest poets, not only in… …   Universalium

• Hood, Thomas — (1799 1845)    Poet and comic writer, s. of a bookseller in London, where he was b., was put into a mercantile office, but the confinement proving adverse to his health, he was sent to Dundee, where the family had connections, and where he… …   Short biographical dictionary of English literature

• Hood, Thomas The Elder and Younger — (1799 1874)    • Thomas, the father, 1799 1845    Born in London, the son of a bookseller, he spent the years 1815 1818 with his father s relatives in Dundee, Scotland, recuperating from what could have been rheumatic fever. Being apprenticed to… …   British and Irish poets

• HOOD, THOMAS —    poet and humourist, born in London; gave up business and engraving, to which he first applied himself, for letters, and commencing as a journalist, immortalised himself by the Song of the Shirt and his Dream of Eugene Aram ; edited the Comic… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

• Thomas Hood — (23 May 1799 ndash; 3 May 1845) was a British humorist and poet. His son, Tom Hood, became a well known playwright and editor.BiographyHe was born in London to Thomas Hood and Elizabeth Sands in the Poultry (Cheapside) above his father s bookshop …   Wikipedia