SOURCE: Morgan, Peter F. “John Hamilton Reynolds and Thomas Hood.” Keats-Shelley Journal 11 (winter 1962): 83-95.

In the following essay, Morgan discusses the literary collaboration of Reynolds with his brother-in-law Thomas Hood.

In this paper I intend to give a chronological account of the relationship between Keats's friend, John Hamilton Reynolds, and Thomas Hood, bringing to light aspects of their careers not dealt with in previous studies.¹

In June 1821, soon after becoming an assistant to Taylor and Hessey in editing their London Magazine, Hood became acquainted with Reynolds, who had for some time been a contributor to it. On 2 November Taylor wrote to John Clare, “I hope you will like our old Friend Peter in his new Capacity of Shewman of the City Lions as the Curiosities of this great Capital are called—There is another Peter who resembles him so much as to be sometimes taken for his Brother...