“ Woman, in her wasted life, in her hurried death, here stands appealing to the society that degrades her, with a combination of eloquence and poetry, of forms of art at once instantaneous and permanent, and with great metrical energy and variety.
Hood was associated with the Athenaeum, started in 1828 by J. Silk Buckingham, and he was a regular contributor for the rest of his life. ”

“ HOOD, THOMAS (1799–1845) , British humorist and poet, the son of Thomas Hood, bookseller, was born in London on the 23rd of May 1799. “Next to being a citizen of the world,” writes Thomas Hood in his Literary Reminiscences, “it must be the best thing to be born a citizen of the world’s greatest city.” On the death of her husband in 1811 Mrs Hood removed to Islington, where Thomas Hood had a schoolmaster who appreciated his talents, and, as he says, “made him feel it impossible not to take an interest in learning while he seemed so interested in teaching.” ”

“ Now it is true that the critic must be unconscious of some of the subtlest charms and nicest delicacies of language who would exclude from humorous writing all those impressions and surprises which depend on the use of the diverse sense of words. ”

“ They are no clamorous expressions of anger at the discrepancies and contrasts of humanity, but plain, solemn pictures of conditions of life, which neither the politician nor the moralist can deny to exist, and which they are imperatively called upon to remedy. ”

“ Bibliography.—The list of Hood’s separately published works is as follows: Odes and Addresses to Great People (1825) ; Whims and Oddities (two series, 1826 and 1827) ; The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur and other Poems (1827) , his only collection of serious verse; The Dream of Eugene Aram, the Murderer (1831) ; Tylney Hall, a novel (3 vols., 1834) ; The Comic Annual (1830–1842) ; Hood’s Own; or, Laughter from Year to Year (1838, second series, 1861) ; Up the Rhine (1840) ; Hood’s Magazine and Comic Miscellany (1844–1848) ”