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Holiday at Ramsgate

Although chiefly remembered now as a writer of comic and satiric verses which depended heavily for their effect on his impressive gift for pun making, Thomas Hood was also admired by literary contemporaries such as Dickens, for his serious poems...

As ever, he could not resist using the occasion to pepper his recollections with puns, some of them less subtle than others, including one on his correspondent’s name...