Horace Smith (poet)
Horace Smith was an English poet and novelist, perhaps best known for his participation in a sonnetwriting competition with Percy Bysshe Shelley. It was of him 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.
Smith was born in London, the fifth of eight children, son of Robert Smith F.R.S. and his wife Mary Bogle. He was educated at Chigwell School with his elder brother James Smith, also a writer. Horace first came to public attention in 1812 when he and his brother James produced a popular literary parody connected to the rebuilding of the Drury Lane Theatre, after a fire in which it had been burnt down. The managers offered a prize of 50 for an address to be recited at the Theatres reopening in October. The Smith brothers hit on the idea of pretending that the most popular poets of the day had entered the competition and writing a book of addresses rejected from the competition in parody of their various styles. James wrote parodies of Wordsworth, Southey, Coleridge and Crabbe, while Horace parodied Byron, Moore, Scott and Bowles.
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