reprinted in any collection during his lifetime; these pieces are arranged chronologically in the order of their publication or of their writing, so far as that can be ascertained with certainty, and range from July 1821, when the poet joined the staff of the London Magazine, to the time when he lay on his deathbed. After these are given the few poems the original appearance of which has not been traced, those which are now printed from manuscript for the first time, and those published posthumously, including the poetical play of Lamia, which is probably an early work. In the supplementary pages devoted to Juvenile work is given for the first time in any collection of Hood's poems his youthful romance in verse 'The Bandit', and in this section there should be the few existing passages from a boyish 'Guide to Dundee' written in the manner of Anstey's New Bath Guide, and portions of two addresses written for a Literary Society to which he belonged-those passages however, first published in the revised edition of The Memorials of Thomas Hood by his son and daughter, are still copyright. In the appendix are given those portions of the Odes and Addresses to Great People which were written by John Hamilton Reynolds and another piece by the same writer. The texts followed in preparing these poems have been wherever possible those as printed by the poet himself; where he reprinted pieces with any alterations the latter text is given with the changes noted. The only alterations made have been in correcting occasional obvious errors of the press. In the Notes' an attempt has been made to give elucidatory information which many readers might need and which they would not find in ordinary works of reference. In conclusion very cordial and sincere thanks are due, and are hereby rendered, to Mr. Alex. Elliot for his ready permission to include in this collection 'The Bandit', first given to the world in 1885 in his very interesting volume Hood in Scotland; to Mr. John Fulleylove, R.I., for his kindness in permitting the use of manuscript poems of Hood's included among the papers of the late Townley Green, R.I.; and to Mr. W. A. Longmore, nephew of Mrs. Hood's, for allowing reference to his copies of the first edition of the Odes and Addresses to Great People in which Hood and Reynolds had respectively initialled their own contributions. 7 W. J. CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE LIFE OF THOMAS HOOD THIS Table shows the chief events of the poet's life, with the dates of the publication of his principal works, and his chronological relations to certain of his predecessors and contemporaries. A. D. ET. 1759 1765 1772 1774 1775 1779 1783 1784 1785 1786 1788 1791 1792 1793 1794 1795 Thomas Hood born, The son of a farmer at Errol, in the Carse of George Reynolds born (died 1853). Writing master at Christ's [Coleridge born (died 1834).] [Southey born (died 1843). Edward Dubois born (died 1850).] [Moore born (died 1852). Horace Smith born (died 1849).] [Johnson died. Leigh Hunt born (died 1859). Allan Cunning- [Peacock born (died 1866), De Quincey born (died 1859). Cowper's Task.] [Burns's Poems. Blake's Songs of Innocence.] [Byron born (died 1824). Theodore Hook born (died 1841). Barham born (died 1845).] [Boswell's Life of Johnson.] m s.. [Rogers's Pleasures of Memory. Shelley born (died 1822).] [Keats born (died 1821). Carlyle born (died 1881). George Darley born (died 1846). Talfourd born (died 1854). Landor's Poems.] 1804 1807 8 557 1808 9 1809 10 1810 II Burns died. Cole- [John Hamilton Reynolds born (died 1852). [Macaulay born (died 1859). Cowper died.] [William Barnes born (died 1886). Leigh Hunt's Juvenilia. [Darwin died. Harriet Martineau born (died 1876). Hugh Douglas Jerrold born (died 1857). Hawthorne born (died 1864).] Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel.] [Mrs. Browning born (died 1861). Lever born (died 1872). [Longfellow born (died 1882). Whittier born (died 1892). Words- [Porson died. Lamb's Specimens. Scott's Marmion. Mrs. He- [Byron's English Bards. Campbell's Gertrude of Wyoming. [Scott's Lady of the Lake. Crabbe's Borough. Southey's Curse 1811 12 H.'s father died August 20; his brother died December 11. Family 1812 13 [Browning born (died 1889). Eliza Cook born (died 1889). 1813 14 About this time H. had a brief period as clerk in a city house. published by H.'s father and edited by Edward Dubois). 1815 16 In the autumn H. went on a visit for his health's sake to relatives 1816 17 Dundee. Probably wrote The Bandit. (unidentified) to local periodicals. Made first contributions 1817 18 Dundee. Returned to London in the autumn. Probably appren- ticed as engraver. [Coleridge's Biographia Literaria. Poems. Moore's Lalla Rookh. Blackwood's Magazine and The Literary Gazette started. Jane Austen died. Tom Taylor born [Lamb's Works. Keats's Endymion. Peacock's Nightmare Abbey. Scott's Rob Roy. Mrs. Shelley's Frankenstein.] 1819 20 H. busy as engraver; joins a Literary Society. [Wordsworth's Peter Bell. Byron's Don Juan. Irving's Sketch Book. Hazlitt's 1820 21 H. submits an instrument for use in copying drawings to the Society 1822 23 In August Gil Blas by H. and Reynolds produced at the English 1823 24 H. probably ceased to sub-edit the London Magazine. Visited Norfolk. [Lamb's Essays of Elia. Hazlitt's Liber Amoris. Barry Cornwall's Flood of Thessaly, &c. (with poem dedicated to 1824 25 [Colman appointed Examiner of Plays. Hook's Sayings and Doings. 1825 26 H.'s 'Hogarthian' plate, The Progress of Cant, and his and Reynolds's 1826 27 H. published first series of Whims and Oddities. critic of the Atlas. [Scott's Woodstock. 1827 28 First daughter born and died in May; giving occasion for Lamb's 1828 29 H. at Brighton after severe attack of rheumatic fever. Projects 1829 30 Winchmore Hill. Edits the Gem, and contributes to it The Dream 1830 31 Daughter, Frances Freeling, born (died 1878). Comic Annual begun. A. D. ET. 1831 32 Dream of Eugene Aram published separately. [Peacock's Crotchet 1833 34 Lytton's Eugene Aram.] [Lamb's Last Essays of Elia. Browning's Pauline.] 1836 37 Coblentz (752 Alten Graben). [Colman died. Godwin died. 1837 38 Ostend (39 Rue Longue). Publishes in the Athenaeum the Ode to 1838 39 Ostend. [Dickens's Oliver Twist. Thackeray's Yellow-Plush. Car- lyle's Sartor. Whittier's Poems.] 1839 40 Ostend (La Rhetorique, Rue St. François). Publishes Hood's Own. 1840 41 Returns to London. Camberwell (2 Union Road, High Street). 1841 42 Becomes editor of the New Monthly Magazine on Hook's death. 1842 43 Removes to Devonshire Lodge, New Finchley Road. Ceases 1844 45 Starts Hood's Magazine in January. Seriously ill for months. 1845 46 THOMAS HOOD dies after lingering illness, May 3. Buried at Kensal |