pupilship

Updated: July 5, 2026

Hood, partly influenced by the need of caring for the public, partly by his pupilship to Lamb, perhaps went to further extremes both in mere fun and in mere sentiment than Praed did, but the central substance is the same in both. Yet one gift which Hood has and Praed has not remains to be noticed the gift of exquisite song writing.

George Saintsbury - A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)