Comic Annual,  9 (1838), 157–58.

Stanzas, Composed in a Shower-Bath

[Thomas Hood]

Genre:

Poetry, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

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Illustrators:

J Scott

Subjects:

Hydropathy, Surgery


    Three short stanzas record the poet's reluctant anticipation of his cold shower. The illustration 'Operation for the Cataract' (158) depicts a man with a stony countenance and eyes closed, standing underneath a shower bath, with his hand on the chain.



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