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- née 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- .