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Horace Smith (poet)

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473: 45: 222:, with seven editions within three months, still stands the most widely popular parodies ever published in the country. The book was written without malice; none of the poets caricatured took offence, while the imitation is so clever that both Byron and Scott claimed that they could scarcely believe they had not written the addresses ascribed to them. The only other collaboration by the two brothers was 338: 431: 468: 156:, after it had burnt down; the managers offered a prize of £50 for an address to be recited at the Theatre's reopening in October. The Smith brothers wrote parodies of poets of the day, supposedly their failed entries in the competition, and sold the collection under the title 128:. It was of Smith that Shelley said: "Is it not odd that the only truly generous person I ever knew who had money enough to be generous with should be a stockbroker? He writes poetry and pastoral dramas and yet knows how to make money, and does make it, and is still generous." 308:, published by him in 1826, contain many clever essays both in verse and prose, but the only piece that remains much remembered is the " Address to the Mummy in Belzoni's Exhibition." (see 552: 353: 243:. Smith helped to manage Shelley's finances. Sonnet-writing competitions were not uncommon; Shelley and Smith wrote competing sonnets on the subject of the 502: 358: 44: 527: 542: 522: 537: 378: 557: 271:
On a Stupendous Leg of Granite, Discovered Standing by Itself in the Deserts of Egypt, with the Inscription Inserted Below
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was published on 1 February 1818 with the same title under the initials H.S. (and was later renamed in his collection
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After making his fortune in business, Horace Smith produced around twenty historical novels:
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Smith was born in London, the fifth of eight children, son of Robert Smith (1747–1832)
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Portrait of Horace Smith by an unknown artist watercolour, circa 1840
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from 1821 to 1825. Returning to England, he first took a house in
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in 1826. He died at Tunbridge Wells on 12 July 1849.
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Smith went on to become a prosperous stockbroker. He
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Smith knew Shelley as a member of the circle around
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Horace Smith (disambiguation)
Horatio N. Smith
Portrait of Horace Smith by an unknown artist watercolour, circa 1840
London
Tunbridge Wells
Romanticism
sonnet
Percy Bysshe Shelley
F.R.S.
Maria Abdy
Chigwell School
James Smith
Drury Lane Theatre
Rejected Addresses
Wordsworth
Southey
Coleridge
Crabbe
Byron
Moore
Scott
Bowles
travelled with family in continental Europe
Tunbridge Wells
Brighton
The Rejected Addresses
First Impressions
Drury Lane
Leigh Hunt
Nile River

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