A Greenwich Pensioner
[Thomas Hood]
Genre: | Paper, Spoof |
Subjects: | Natural History |
Describes the 'Greenwich Pensioner' as if he were a natural history specimen: 'a sort of stranded marine animal, that the receding tide of life has left high and dry on the shore' (63). | |
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