WorkThomas Hood

Whims and Oddities in Prose and Verse

Whims and Oddities in Prose and Verse (1826) Inferred

Thomas Hood (1799–1845) · 1826

InferredHudspeth identified the author as Thomas Hood and suggest either *Whims and Oddities* (1826) or *Plea of the Midsummer Fairies* (1827), with the earlier collection being more likely.

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Documented 1833

Letters

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed1record

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

1810

1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

1833—

Letter to James F. Clarke

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“Yesterday I took Hood's and Pinkney's poems and Miss Martineau on Scott into the wood. I passed three or four hours there reading passages from them and conversing with you about it.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Inferred Hudspeth identified the author as Thomas Hood and suggest either Whims and Oddities (1826) or Plea of the Midsummer Fairies (1827), with the earlier collection being more likely.