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Thomas Hood (23 May 1799 – 3 May 1845) was an English poet, author and humorist, best known for poems such as "The Bridge of Sighs" and "The Song of the Shirt". Hood wrote regularly for The London Magazine , Athenaeum , and Punch .
"The Song of the Shirt" is a poem written by Thomas Hood in 1843. It was written in honour of a Mrs. Biddell, a widow and seamstress living in wretched conditions. In what was, at that time, common practice, Mrs. Biddell sewed trousers and shirts in her home using materials supplied to her by her employer for which she was forced to give a £ 2 ...
The poem was widely anthologised and frequently illustrated in books of Victorian poetry, including an etching by Sir John Everett Millais in 1858. It was also set to music by Reinhold Ludwig Herman (1849–1919). Along with Hood's other notable serious poem, "The Song of the Shirt", it influenced several Victorian artists.
Victorian Forerunner: The Later Career of Thomas Hood (1968) Selected Poems of Thomas Hood (1970), editor; Two Reminiscences of Thomas Carlyle (1974), editor; Nineteenth Century Literary Perspectives (1974), editor; Carlyle and His Contemporaries (1977), editor; Froude's Life of Carlyle (1979), editor; Byron et la Suisse (1982)
Thomas Hood (1556 – 1620) was an English mathematician and physician, the first lecturer in mathematics appointed in England, a few years before the founding of Gresham College. He publicized the Copernican theory, and discussed the nova SN 1572. [1] (Tycho's Nova). He also innovated in the design of mathematical and astronomical instruments.
The era can also be understood in a more extensive sense—the 'long Victorian era'—as a period that possessed sensibilities and characteristics distinct from the periods adjacent to it, [note 1] in which case it is sometimes dated to begin before Victoria's accession—typically from the passage of or agitation for (during the 1830s) the ...
This category contains writers active in the United Kingdom and the British Empire during the Victorian era ... Thomas Carlyle (2 C, 23 P) D. ... Tom Hood; Mary ...
Victorian fairground peep shows were forced to add extra apertures for their viewers when exhibiting their shows of the murder. [5] The plays of the Victorian era tended to portray Corder as a cold-blooded monster and Marten as the innocent whom he preyed upon; her reputation and her children by other fathers were airbrushed out, [ 42 ] and ...