Thomas Hood, Classical Poems Best Place to Buy Anywhere on the Internet

It would be easy to dismiss Thomas Hood as a lesser poet of the Romantic Era and early Victorian age, but Hoods contribution was far greater than most realise. Mostly known during his lifetime for his comic writings, many self-published, it is his more serious writings that are best known today. His major serious work was The Song of the Shirt which was published anonymously in Punch in 1843. It was a powerful attack on worker exploitation and was immediately reprinted in the London Times and other newspapers across Europe. It was dramatised by Mark Lemon as The Sempstress, was printed on broadsheets, cotton handkerchiefs and was highly praised by many of the literary establishment, including Charles Dickens. It is hard to imagine today of the impact that a single poem could have.

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