Describing the terminal illness of a friend in her "Autobiography", Elizabeth Missing Sewell reproduces four stanzas from Thomas Hood, 'We watched her breathing through the night --'
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Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell
Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 22 December 1843:
'I read the "Song of the Shirt" & felt all the power of it. It is not every man -- is it? -- who can
prick so into the heart with a needle -- but Hood is an extraordinary writer [...] What tragic
passion he throws into that "sti[t]ch sti[t]ch before he has done with it! -- enough to make two
or three successful modern tragedies'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Serial / periodical
'Do you know that little poem of Hood's called [']the Lady's Dream'; because it is so true what he says about evil being done by [italics] want of thought [end italics].'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Unknown
'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too cruel to ask you to read "The Grandmother?" [...] A Belgian governess, Mdlle. Stapps, was on the chair just behind him. He said, "I can't read 'The Grandmother' properly except after breakfast, when I am weak and tremulous; fortified by dinner and a glass of port I am too vigorous." "Well; read 'The Northern Farmer' then." So he did: and asked Mdlle. how much she understood. "Pas un mot, Monsieur."
'Then he read "The Grandmother," and after that four pieces out of Hood's Whims and Oddities, "Faithless Nelly Gray," "Faithless Sally Brown," "Tim Turpin" and "Ben Battle." He explained the play on words in them to Mdlle. who was "excessivement enchantee." He laughed till the tears came at some of the things he read. This went on till 11.50'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Print: Book
'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too cruel to ask you to read "The Grandmother?" [...] A Belgian governess, Mdlle. Stapps, was on the chair just behind him. He said, "I can't read 'The Grandmother' properly except after breakfast, when I am weak and tremulous; fortified by dinner and a glass of port I am too vigorous." "Well; read 'The Northern Farmer' then." So he did: and asked Mdlle. how much she understood. "Pas un mot, Monsieur."
'Then he read "The Grandmother," and after that four pieces out of Hood's Whims and Oddities, "Faithless Nelly Gray," "Faithless Sally Brown," "Tim Turpin" and "Ben Battle." He explained the play on words in them to Mdlle. who was "excessivement enchantee." He laughed till the tears came at some of the things he read. This went on till 11.50'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Print: Book
'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too cruel to ask you to read "The Grandmother?" [...] A Belgian governess, Mdlle. Stapps, was on the chair just behind him. He said, "I can't read 'The Grandmother' properly except after breakfast, when I am weak and tremulous; fortified by dinner and a glass of port I am too vigorous." "Well; read 'The Northern Farmer' then." So he did: and asked Mdlle. how much she understood. "Pas un mot, Monsieur."
'Then he read "The Grandmother," and after that four pieces out of Hood's Whims and Oddities, "Faithless Nelly Gray," "Faithless Sally Brown," "Tim Turpin" and "Ben Battle." He explained the play on words in them to Mdlle. who was "excessivement enchantee." He laughed till the tears came at some of the things he read. This went on till 11.50'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Print: Book
'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too cruel to ask you to read "The Grandmother?" [...] A Belgian governess, Mdlle. Stapps, was on the chair just behind him. He said, "I can't read 'The Grandmother' properly except after breakfast, when I am weak and tremulous; fortified by dinner and a glass of port I am too vigorous." "Well; read 'The Northern Farmer' then." So he did: and asked Mdlle. how much she understood. "Pas un mot, Monsieur."
'Then he read "The Grandmother," and after that four pieces out of Hood's Whims and Oddities, "Faithless Nelly Gray," "Faithless Sally Brown," "Tim Turpin" and "Ben Battle." He explained the play on words in them to Mdlle. who was "excessivement enchantee." He laughed till the tears came at some of the things he read. This went on till 11.50'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Print: Book
'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too cruel to ask you to read "The Grandmother?" [...] A Belgian governess, Mdlle. Stapps, was on the chair just behind him. He said, "I can't read 'The Grandmother' properly except after breakfast, when I am weak and tremulous; fortified by dinner and a glass of port I am too vigorous." "Well; read 'The Northern Farmer' then." So he did: and asked Mdlle. how much she understood. "Pas un mot, Monsieur."
'Then he read "The Grandmother," and after that four pieces out of Hood's Whims and Oddities, "Faithless Nelly Gray," "Faithless Sally Brown," "Tim Turpin" and "Ben Battle." He explained the play on words in them to Mdlle. who was "excessivement enchantee." He laughed till the tears came at some of the things he read. This went on till 11.50'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Print: Book
From Frederick Locker-Lampson's recollections of Tennyson:
'I have an old commonplace book, into which [...] I had copied an epigram by Thomas Hood. It runs as follows:
'"A joke. 'What is a modern poet's fate?
To write his thoughts upon a slate;
The critic spits on what is done,
[italics]Gives it a wipe[end italics] -- and all is gone.'
"'T. HOOD."
'This quatrain amused Tennyson, and he said: "It is a good joke, and now I'll write you a grave [italics]truth[end italics]." Which he did as follows, adding the words "a joke" by the side of Hood's lines.
'[quotes] A truth. While I live, the owls!
When I die, the GHOULS!!!'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Manuscript: Unknown, In hand of Frederick Locker-Lampson, in commonplace book belonging to him.
From Frederick Locker-Lampson's recollections of Tennyson:
'I have an old commonplace book, into which [...] I had copied an epigram by Thomas Hood. It runs as follows:
'"A joke. 'What is a modern poet's fate?
To write his thoughts upon a slate;
The critic spits on what is done,
[italics]Gives it a wipe[end italics] -- and all is gone.'
"'T. HOOD."
'This quatrain amused Tennyson, and he said: "It is a good joke, and now I'll write you a grave [italics]truth[end italics]." Which he did as follows, adding the words "a joke" by the side of Hood's lines.
'[quotes] A truth. While I live, the owls!
When I die, the GHOULS!!!'
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Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Locker-Lampson
'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on their works and Miss Goadby one entitled Reminiscences of Moore. Mr Goadby read The Demon Sleep and Nellie Gray, Mrs Edminson the Song of the Shirt & Mrs Rawlings selections from Lalla Rookh.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Allan Goadby Print: Book
'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on their works and Miss Goadby one entitled Reminiscences of Moore. Mr Goadby read The Demon Sleep [?] and Nellie Gray, Mrs Edminson the Song of the Shirt & Mrs Rawlings selections from Lalla Rookh.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Edminson Print: Book
'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on their works and Miss Goadby one entitled Reminiscences of Moore. Mr Goadby read The Demon Sleep [?] and Nellie Gray, Mrs Edminson the Song of the Shirt & Mrs Rawlings selections from Lalla Rookh.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Edminson Print: Book
