The Poacher, A Serious Ballad

Author(s): Thomas Hood

Genre(s): Multi-version (weekly And Fortnightly Poetry)

Narrators: Chris Pyle, David Lawrence, Newgatenovelist, J. McDougall, Larry Wilson, Leonard Wilson, Greg Giordano, NoelBadrian

Number of Chapters: 8

Length: 22 minutes

Language: English

There were scarcely any events in the life of Thomas Hood. One condition there was of too potent determining importance—life-long ill health; and one circumstance of moment—a commercial failure, and consequent expatriation. Beyond this, little presents itself for record in the outward facts of this upright and beneficial career, bright with genius and coruscating with wit, dark with the lengthening and deepening shadow of death. (from the Biographical Introduction (by William Michael Rossetti) to The Poetrical Works of Thomas Hood)