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Thomas Hood

1799 - 1845

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Thomas Hood (23 May 1799 – 3 May 1845) was an English poet, author and humorist, best known for poems such as "The Bridge of Sighs" and "The Song of the Shirt". Hood wrote regularly for The London Magazine, Athenaeum, and Punch. He later published a magazine largely consisting of his own works. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Hood has received more than 258,744 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Thomas Hood is the 5,557th most popular writer (down from 4,682nd in 2019), the 4,636th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,712th in 2019) and the 524th most popular British Writer.

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  • 260k

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  • 42.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Thomas Hood ranks 5,557 out of 5,755. Before him are Javed Akhtar, Mulk Raj Anand, Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Andrew Davies, Malcolm Bradbury, and Eliza Acton. After him are Kaifi Azmi, Barbara Frischmuth, Margaret Oliphant, Elizabeth F. Ellet, José Jiménez Lozano, and María Dueñas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Thomas Hood ranks 56. Before him are Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, George Arnott Walker-Arnott, Avdotia Istomina, David Douglas, Samuel George Morton, and Eliza Acton. After him are Titian Peale and Simon Cameron. Among people deceased in 1845, Thomas Hood ranks 35. Before him are Nils Gabriel Sefström, Elizabeth Fry, Antoine Risso, Zaman Shah Durrani, Francisco Manuel Blanco, and Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar. After him are Joseph Story and Gabriel Moore.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Hood ranks 4,636 out of 7,765. Before him are Malcolm Bradbury (1932), Eliza Acton (1799), Abraham Beame (1906), Francis Leggatt Chantrey (1781), Hannah Murray (1989), and Paul Jones (1942). After him are Harry Melling (1989), George Ezra (1993), Jodhi May (1975), Susan Haack (1945), Margaret Oliphant (1828), and Susan Hampshire (1937).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Thomas Hood ranks 524. Before him are E. W. Hornung (1866), Olivia Manning (1908), William Cobbett (1763), Andrew Davies (1936), Malcolm Bradbury (1932), and Eliza Acton (1799). After him are Margaret Oliphant (1828), Brian Moore (1921), Beryl Bainbridge (1932), Roma Ryan (1950), Edmund Gosse (1849), and Ernest Dowson (1867).

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