WorkThomas Hood

“Lycus the Centaur”

"Lycus the Centaur" (in The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies ? and Other Poems, 1827)

Thomas Hood (1799–1845) · in The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies ? and Other Poems, 1827

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Documented 1845

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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New-York Daily Tribune

“Thomas Hood” · July 18, 1845 · p. 1

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“Lycus the Centaur" is also a poem once read never to be forgotten. The hasty trot of the versification, unfit for any other theme, on this betokens well the frightened horse.”

Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.