Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood, Vol. 1 of 4 Thomas hood was born in the Poultry, Lon don, ih 1798. His father was a native of Scotland, and for many years acting partner in the firm of Vernor, Hood and Sharp, extensive booksellers and publishers. Thomas Hood was noted as a child for great vivacity of spirits, and, at a very early age, gave tokens of the genius for which he was afterwards distinguished. He was continually making shrewd and pointed remarks upon topics of which he was presumed to know nothing. This information we have derived from the Third Vo lume of the Book of Gems. For our further knowledge of the first half of the poet's life we are entirely dependent upon the account which Hood has given of himself in his Literary Re miniscences, and we cannot do better than to ex tract the substance of those agreeable papers in the author's own words. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.