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The Poetical Works Of Thomas Hood

First Series edition of The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood ( 1799-1845), a British humorist and poet. After working in a counting house, and then studying engraving, Hood moved to Scotland, where he began to seriously write poetry. Before long Hood contributed humorous and poetical articles to the provincial newspapers and magazines. On his return to London in 1818 he applied himself to engraving, enabling him later to illustrate his various humours and fancies by quaint devices. In 1821, the editor of the London Magazine, was killed in a duel, and the periodical passed into the hands of some friends of Hood, who proposed to make him sub-editor. His installation into this post at once introduced him to the literary society of the time. In his short life Hood saw Romantic change into Victorian: he took tea with Wordsworth, dined with Dickens. Hood's work mirrors this change. Much of his writing has intrinsic merit; some is memorable, its range impressive, its style often forward-looking, and all is valuable to anyone concerned with the transitional period, literary and social, which it reflects.

Features;

• Publisher Ward Lock, London; Undated ca.1912
• Green Leather Hardback with Gilt Title And Monogram, Full Gilt Page Edges, Decorated Endpapers, 400 pp
• Frontis Illustration
• Size 185 x 130mm, 650g

Condition: Good – No Dust Jacket, Front Hinge Cracking, No Inscriptions, Good Very Clean Copy

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