"Odes and Addresses" – Hood's first volume – was written in conjunction with his brother-in-law John Hamilton Reynolds, a friend of John Keats. Coleridge wrote to Lamb averring that the book must be the latter's work. Keats wrote two poems for Jane Reynolds: "O Sorrow!" (October 1817) and "On a Leander Gem which Miss Reynolds, my Kind Friend, Gave Me" (c. March 1817). Also from this period are "The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies" (1827) and a dramatic romance, "Lamia", published later. "The Plea" was a book of serious verse, but Hood was known as a humorist and the book was ignored almost entirely.