Horace (born Horatio ) Smith (31 December 1779 – 12 July 1849) was an English poet and novelist. In 1818, he participated in a sonnet -writing competition with Percy Bysshe Shelley . 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."
10-860: Horace Smith may refer to: Horace Smith (poet) (1779–1849), English poet and novelist Horace Smith (inventor) (1808–1893), co-founder of Smith & Wesson Horace B. Smith (1826–1888), U.S. Representative from New York Horace Smith (New Brunswick politician) (1914–2001), Canadian politician Horace H. Smith (1905–1976), American diplomat Horace Percy Smith (1858–1928), British chartered accountant in Hong Kong Horace Smith (Australian cricketer) (1892–1977), Australian cricketer Dennis Smith (New Zealand cricketer) (Horace Dennis Smith, 1913–1986), New Zealand cricketer Horace Smith (footballer) (1908–1975), footballer for Coventry City and Nottingham Forest [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
20-458: A member of the circle around Leigh Hunt . Smith helped to manage Shelley's finances. Sonnet-writing competitions were not uncommon; Shelley and Smith wrote competing sonnets on the subject of the Nile River . Inspired by Diodorus Siculus (Book 1, Chapter 47), they each wrote and submitted a sonnet on the subject to The Examiner . Shelley's " Ozymandias " was published on 11 January 1818 under
30-457: A prosperous stockbroker. He travelled with family in continental Europe from 1821 to 1825. Returning to England, he first took a house in Tunbridge Wells , and then moved to Brighton in 1826. He died at Tunbridge Wells on 12 July 1849. The Rejected Addresses , with seven editions within three months, still stands the most widely popular parodies ever published in the country. The book
40-478: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Horace Smith (poet) Smith was born in London, the fifth of eight children, son of Robert Smith (1747–1832) F.R.S. and his wife Mary Bogle. His niece was the poet Maria Abdy . He was educated at Chigwell School with his elder brother James Smith , also a writer. Horace first came to public attention in 1812 at
50-551: The Crow Street Theatre in Dublin on 27 January 1814. Fortescue and Harcourt begin the play as friends, but have a falling out when Fortescue mistakenly believes he has spoken badly of him to Mrs Freemantle, a widow who he is in love with. Other quarrels break out amongst other characters, over misunderstandings, and its only in the fifth and final act that these mistaken "first impressions" are corrected. This article on
60-1096: The only piece that remains much remembered is the " Address to the Mummy in Belzoni's Exhibition." (see Giovanni Battista Belzoni ) First Impressions (play) First Impressions is an 1813 comedy play by the British writer Horatio Smith . It was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on 30 October 1813. The original cast included Joseph Munden as Sir Thomas Trapwell, Alexander Rae as Fortescue, Robert Elliston as Harcourt, William Lovegrove as Sir Toby Harbottle, William Oxberry as Sapling, Benjamin Wrench as Professor Trifleton, Julia Glover as Laetitia Freemantle, Elizabeth Rebecca Edwin as Lady Trapwell, Sarah Sparks as Lady Anemone, Frances Maria Kelly as Louisa and Susan Boyce as Phoebe. It lasted for fifteen performances on its original run. Its Irish premiere took place at
70-815: The pen name Glirastes, and Smith's poem of the same title was published on 1 February 1818 with the same title under the initials H.S. (and was later renamed in his collection Amarynthus as On a Stupendous Leg of Granite, Discovered Standing by Itself in the Deserts of Egypt, with the Inscription Inserted Below ). After making his fortune in business, Horace Smith produced around twenty historical novels: Brambletye House (1826), Tor Hill (1826), Reuben Apsley (1827), Zillah (1828), The New Forest (1829), Walter Colyton (1830), among others. Three volumes of Gaieties and Gravities , published by him in 1826, contain many clever essays both in verse and prose, but
80-406: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Horace_Smith&oldid=1062296599 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
90-674: The time of the rebuilding of the Drury Lane Theatre , 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 Rejected Addresses . James parodied Wordsworth , Southey , Coleridge and Crabbe , while Horace parodied Byron , Moore , Scott and Bowles . Smith went on to become
100-406: 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 Horace in London (1813). His comedy play First Impressions was performed at Drury Lane in 1813. Smith knew Shelley as
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