Please answer the following question: Facts: - debut works: odes and addresses - imagesize: 270px - death place: london , england - period: 1820s -- 1840s - death date: 3 may 1845 - genre: poetry , fiction - spouse: jane hood -lrb- nee reynolds -rrb- - children: tom hood , frances freeling broderip - birth date: 23 may 1799 - name: thomas hood - nationality: british - image: thomas hood from npg.jpg - birth place: london , england Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of thomas hood .
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thomas hood -lrb- 23 may 1799 -- 3 may 1845 -rrb- 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 humourist tom hood -lrb- 1835 -- 1874 -rrb- .