Social Commentaries
The Pursuit of Letters
From The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood
Social Commentaries
The Germans for Learning enjoy great repute;
But the English make Letters still more a pursuit;
For a Cockney will go from the banks of the Thames
To Cologne for an O, and to Nassau for M's.
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Hood, Thomas. “The Pursuit of Letters.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hood/143/.
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Hood, Thomas. “The Pursuit of Letters.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hood/143/.
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