Hood, Thomas

23 May 1799 - 3 May 1845

Late-Romantic English poet, editor, and humorist who also wrote some "straight-up" Gothic poems; his son Tom Hood also contributed to the Gothic literary tradition.

Sites:
Thomas Hood page
Lots of links, a chronology, and more. [Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya U]
Thomas Hood Overview
[VictorianWeb]
Brief biographical note
Includes some etexts as well.
Biographical note
[Wikipedia]
Brief biographical note
[John W. Cousins, A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, 1910]
   Thomas Hood


Etexts:
"The Bridge of Sighs"
- at Bartleby.com

"Death"
- at Bartleby.com

"The Death-Bed"
- at Bartleby.com
- at LitGothic a LitGothic etext (2K)

"The Haunted House"
- at LitGothic a LitGothic etext (18K)

"The Last Man"  [1824]
- at Romantic Circles
- at LitGothic a LitGothic etext

"Mary's Ghost"
- at LitGothic a LitGothic etext (3K)

"Silence"
- at Bartleby.com

"The Supper Superstition"
A sample of Hood's humorous Gothic....
- at LitGothic a LitGothic etext

Sonnets
A single page that contains "Silence," "Death," and a few others.

"Tim Turpin"
A humorously morbid — or is it morbidly humorous? — poem.
- at Ross MacIntosh

"Thomas Hood."