Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . THOMAS HOOD. 1798—1845. This exquisite humorist was the son of a London intended as a merchants clerk, he first turned engraver,and finally author. With the gloom of chronic disease uponhim, he toiled bravely and arduously for his family, lighting ourmurky London air with jokes that sparkled like the star sparks offireworks. He excelled both in pathos and humour: his Dreamof Eugene Aram is vigorous and passionate; his Miss Kil-mansegg is
Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . THOMAS HOOD. 1798—1845. This exquisite humorist was the son of a London intended as a merchants clerk, he first turned engraver,and finally author. With the gloom of chronic disease uponhim, he toiled bravely and arduously for his family, lighting ourmurky London air with jokes that sparkled like the star sparks offireworks. He excelled both in pathos and humour: his Dreamof Eugene Aram is vigorous and passionate; his Miss Kil-mansegg is irresistibly droll, and spangled with gems of ex-quisite and thoughtful nonsense. In his Song of the Shirt,which appeared in Punch, Hood rose to a higher flight, andtouched the deeper cords of the human heart. True to the finerutilitarianism of our age, the poet wished to have this line aloneinscribed upon his grave, He wrote The Song of the Shirt. Those who have themselves suffered can best sympathize withthe miseries of the poor. An invalid for half his life as Hood was,it is not any wonder that thoughts upon physical sufferi
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