TY - BOOK ID - 77919384 TI - A self-divided poet PY - 2006 SN - 1282190377 9786612190377 1443806498 9781443806497 1847180701 9781847180704 PB - Newcastle-upon-Tyne Cambridge Scholars DB - UniCat KW - Hood, Thomas, KW - Criticism and interpretation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77919384 AB - Whereas Thomas Hood has long been regarded as a minor comic poet, this book--the first to devote itself exclusively to his verse--provides a detailed analysis of two ""serious"" poems (""Hero and Leander"" and ""The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies"") so as to give a better sense of his range. Most commentators have pointed to the influence of Keats on such occasions, but close examination reveals an even greater debt to Elizabethan and Metaphysical poets, whose sometimes playful deployment of the con... ER -