Talk:Thomas Hood
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[edit] Tone problem ?????
In what way exactly is this article lacking neutrality? It appears to be perfectly allright as far as I can see. The claim that the article isn't encyclopedic is completely absurd. Why shouldn't it be written biographicaly, why shouldn't artistic assesments feature within it? The comments included are nothing short of ridiculous. Gruesome Pet
The utterly pointless comments about the tone of this article should not be acknowledged with a your "balanced view warning" & the use of the word "encyclopedic" is bizarre. This man Farmbrough is a complete fool.
Phil Butcher
[edit] Tone problem
This is a fun article, but the tone is wrong for an encyclopedic entry. It reads more like an independent biography, complete with value judgments and such. I'm not necessarily complaining, just pointing out that it's not really the right style for an encyclopedia.
But I'm not going to change it; I'll leave that to someone who cares more about it than I do. (unsigned)
- More to the point where is it from. It appears to be scanned, maybe it's from EB 19911. THe date can't be very far off. Rich Farmbrough 19:24, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
From Volume V13, Page 667, 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. "The chief sources of his biography are: Memorials of Thomas Hood, collected, arranged and edited by his daughter (186o); his " Literary Reminiscences " in Hood's Own ; Alexander Elliot, Hood in Scotland (1885). See also the memoir of Hood's friend C. W. Dilke, by his grandson Sir Charles Dilke, prefixed to Papers of a Critic; and M. H. Spielmann's History of Punch. There is an excellent edition of the Poems of Thomas Hood (2 vols., 1897), with a biographical introduction of great interest by Canon Alfred Ainger." Rich Farmbrough 19:43, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
I did cut out a lot of waffle and POV stuff. I think it is now more reasonable. Charles Matthews 09:14, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] IP Waffle
An anonymous IP destroyed some of the layout, replaced content with badly-written schoolchild commentary. Have reverted. Any dispute, settle here. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 12:47, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
