Paronomasia in a Letter by Thomas Hood.(Critical essay)

ANQ | September 22, 2006| | Copyright

In November 1828, Thomas Hood wrote an extraordinary letter to Sir Thomas Lawrence, ostensibly to gain access to the Royal Pavilion in Brighton, but more probably as a practical joke (or so it seems to me). The text is a relentless train of puns, and survives in a transcript by his "co-conspirator," Robert Balmanno--suggesting that it was its own raison d'etre (a tugging of the beard of an eminence grise) rather than a serious attempt at securing an open sesame. Toward the end of the letter, Hood writes: "In a conversation with Mr. Balmanno it occurred to me however, that you ...

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