Examples of his works Hood wrote humorously on many contemporary issues. One of the main ones was grave robbing and selling of corpses to anatomists (see West Port murders). On this serious and perhaps cruel issue, he wrote wryly, November in London is usually cool and overcast, and in Hood's day subject to frequent smog. In 1844, he wrote the poem, "No!": An example of Hood's reflective and sentimental verse is the famous "I Remember, I Remember", excerpted here: Hood's best known work in his lifetime was "The Song of the Shirt", a verse lament for a London seamstress compelled to sell shirts she had made, the proceeds of which lawfully belonged to her employer, in order to feed her malnourished and ailing child. Hood's poem appeared in one of the first editions of Punch in 1843 and quickly became a public sensation, being turned into a popular song and inspiring social activists in defence of countless industrious labouring women living in abject poverty. An excerpt: Modern references Metro-Land – John Betjeman (1973) So Much Blood – Simon Brett (1976) "Opus 4" – The Art of Noise (album: In Visible Silence, 1986) The Piano – Jane Campion (1993) Cod – Mark Kurlansky (1997) Cod – Mark Kurlansky (199) Works by Thomas Hood The list of Hood's separately published works is as follows: Odes and Addresses to Great People (1825) Whims and Oddities (two series, 1826 and 1827) The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur and other Poems (1827), his only collection of serious verse The Epping Hunt illustrated by George Cruikshank (1829) The Dream of Eugene Aram, the Murderer (1831) Tylney Hall, a novel (3 vols., 1834) The Comic Annual (1830–1842) Hood's Own, or, Laughter from Year to Year (1838, second series, 1861) Up the Rhine (1840) Hood's Magazine and Comic Miscellany (1844–1848) National Tales (2 vols., 1837), a collection of short novelettes, including "The Three Jewels". Whimsicalities (1844), with illustrations from John Leech's designs Many contributions to contemporary periodicals. References Further reading John Clubbe, Victorian Forerunner; The Later Career of Thomas Hood (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1968) Frances Hood, The Memorials of Thomas Hood – Vol. 1 and The Memorials of Thomas Hood – Vol. 2 (Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1860) Walter Jerrold, Thomas Hood; His Life and Times (New York: John Lane, 1909) Alex Elliot (ed.), Hood in Scotland (Dundee: James P.