Thomas Hoodトマス･フッド / 1799-1845

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1799年5月、ロンドン生まれ。London Magazine (1821-3)、The Gem (1829)、Comic Annual (1830)、New Monthly Magazine (1841-3)、Hood’s Magazine (1843) の編集に携わり、自身もユーモア作品や詩篇を投稿する。当時のセンセーショナルな話題をユーモアたっぷりの風刺やパロディに仕立てた作品は大変な人気を博し、一流のユーモア作家としての名を知らしめた。”The Dream of Eugene Aram, the Murder” (1829) は、友人を殺したかどで絞首刑に処せられた言語学者 Eugene Aram (1704-59) の伝記を基にした作品であり、後にブルワ・リットン (Bulwer-Lytton, 1803-73) も同様のテーマで Eugene Aram (1832) を執筆した。病床で書かれたという二作品 “The Song of Shirt” (1844)、”The Bridge of Sighs” (1844) は、貧しい工場労働者や売春婦の自殺の問題を扱った作品でフッドの名前を後世に残すアンソロジー・ピースである。　(Y. Y.)

Born in London, May 1799. He was involved in editing the London Magazine (1821-3), The Gem (1829), the Comic Annual (1830), the New Monthly Magazine (1841-3), and Hood’s Magazine (1843), and contributed to them a number of his own poetical works. His humorous satires and parodies on contemporary sensational topics sold well, which made him widely known as a first-rate humorist. “The Dream of Eugene Aram, the Murder” (1829) is based on the real story of Eugene Aram (1704-59), an English philologist hanged for the murder of his friend, a subject which Bulwer-Lytton (1803-73) took up in the form of novel, Eugene Aram (1832). Hood’s most famous compositions, written on his sickbed, are “The Song of the Shirt” (1844) and “The Bridge of Sighs” (1844), both of which took up the contemporary serious issues, such as the problems facing poor factory workers and the suicide of a harlot. (Y. Y.)

原詩（PDF）

1. The Dream of Eugene Aram, the Murderer
2. The Duel
3. The Epping Hunt
4. Fair Ines
5. Faithless Nelly Gray
6. Faithless Sally Brown
7. The Ghost
8. Jack Hall
9. John Day
10. John Jones
11. John Trot
12. The Last Man
13. Mary's Ghost
14. Pompey's Ghost
15. The Supper Superstition
16. Tim Turpin
17. A Waterloo Ballad

訳詩（PDF）

1. 殺人犯ユージン・アラムの夢
6. 浮気なサリー・ブラウン
13. メアリの亡霊

原詩出典

＊　The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood. Ed. with Notes by Walter Jerrold. Oxford UP, 1911.