Edited by his son Tom Hood, this collection gathers the punning ballads, mock romances and comic fables that made Hood famous, among them ‘A Tale of a Trumpet’, ‘The Captain’s Cow’ and ‘The Lost Heir’. The preface explains how a chronically ill and outwardly melancholy man could propose as his epitaph that he spat more blood and made more puns than any man living.
Wordplay of dazzling ingenuity from the poet who also wrote The Song of the Shirt, a delight for lovers of light verse. Download the free EPUB.