Before I Go to Sleep
By Thomas Hood
1990
First Published
3.73
Average Rating
32
Number of Pages
In an exquisitely illustrated nineteenth-century poem, a child drifts to sleep imagining all the animals he would like to be, including a tap-dancing giraffe, a musical chimpanzee, and a mountain goat in silly socks. Reissue.
Avg Rating
3.73
Number of Ratings
66
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Author
Thomas Hood
Author · 6 books
Thomas Hood was an English poet, author and humourist, best known for poems such as The Bridge of Sighs and The Song of the Shirt. Hood wrote regularly for The London Magazine, the Athenaeum, and Punch. He later published a magazine largely consisting of his own works. Hood, never robust, lapsed into invalidism by the age of 41 and died at the age of 45. William Michael Rossetti in 1903 called him "the finest English poet" between the generations of Shelley and Tennyson. Hood was the father of playwright and humorist Tom Hood (1835 – 1874).
