The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood

Project Gutenberg's The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood, by Thomas Hood This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood Author: Thomas Hood Release Date: April 18, 2005 [EBook #15652] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE POETICAL WORKS OF THOMAS HOOD *** Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Robert Prince, Leonard Johnson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. THE POETICAL WORKS OF THOMAS HOOD WITH BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION BY WILLIAM MICHAEL ROSSETTI ENLARGED AND REVISED EDITION A. L. BURT COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, 52-58 DUANE STREET, NEW YORK Thomas Hood. BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION. There were scarcely any events in the life of Thomas Hood. One condition there was of too potent determining importance—life-long ill health; and one circumstance of moment—a commercial failure, and consequent expatriation. Beyond this, little presents itself for record in the outward facts of this upright and beneficial career, bright with genius and coruscating with wit, dark with the lengthening and deepening shadow of death.