Download or read book Selected Poems of Thomas Hood Winthrop Mackworth Praed and Thomas Lovell Beddoes written by Susan J. Wolfson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology brings together three powerfully original figures who vividly capture the spirit and anxieties of their age. Thomas Hood and Winthrop Mackworth Praed write with a self-conscious playfulness about literary history and traditions as well as an active and often satirical engagement with contemporary social and political culture. Thomas Lovell Beddoes has always held the interest of the "dark" Victorianists for his lushly lurid imagination and of the modernists for his ironic, frequently caustic verses. Most of all, these are three amazingly interesting poets--full of verbal wit, evocative imagery, compelling imaginations. Although he started by writing in the style of Keats, Thomas Hood (1799-1845) declared, "I have to be a lively Hood for a livelihood," and devoted most of his career to comic verse. But his sheer verbal ingenuity and endlessly inventive punning do not conceal his phobias and fears, nor overshadow the emerging social protest that was to shape the impressive poems in his later years. Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802-1839) observed the social scene of his day--the flirtations, political intrigues, elegant chit-chat, and parliamentary procedures--with sparkling, self-deprecating wit. Having read law, Praed was called to the Bar in 1829 and entered Parliament as a Conservative in 1830. Even so, he wrote to his school friend and future editor, "Having been favoured by Nature with a long face, a short purse, and two elder Brothers, I find no way of making myself popular in the circle in which she has placed me, except versifying." Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849), who committed suicide, was, in the editors' words "brilliant, solitary, eccentric, erratic, homosexual, politically radical, a poet of powerful, haunting imagination, and, like the other morbidly witty poets in this volume, is most characteristic for his defiance of easy characterization." He has been called the last Elizabethan, a Jacobean scion, an original interpreter of gothic terror, the first modernist, and, with his comic grotesqueries, a precursor of the twentieth-century theater of the absurd. The editors' introductions to each poet are lively and accessible to the non-specialist, while their editorial work, both in establishing the texts and in their annotation and apparatus, makes this an ideal text for specialist study as well.

Download or read book The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood written by Thomas Hood and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poems by Thomas Hood 1871 written by Thomas Hood and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. 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 the original work.

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Download or read book Humorous Poems written by Thomas Hood and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poems by Thomas Hood written by Thomas Hood and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies Hero and Leander Lycus the Centaur and Other Poems written by Thomas Hood and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Selected Poems of Thomas Hood written by Thomas Hood and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Poems of Thomas Hood written by Thomas Hood and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hood was a 19th-century English poet known for his witty and satirical verse. This two-volume collection brings together many of his most famous poems, including 'The Bridge of Sighs' and 'The Song of the Shirt.' Also included is a biographical account of Hood's life and work. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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