With his elder brother James (1775-1839) Horace Smith became famous for the collection of parodies, Rejected Addresses (1812). Employed as a clerk, he began his literary career by collaborating with the elderly dramatist Richard Cumberland on several Tory periodicals. Later, as a member of Leigh Hunt's circle, Smith knew Shelley and Keats, worked with Thomas Campbell on The New Monthly Magazine, and contributed prose and verse to the London Magazine. James Smith was solicitor to the Board of Ordnance and the senior partner in the imitations of Horace.
TEXT RECORDS:
1808Horace in London. Book III. Ode 16.
1812Cui bono? By Lord B.
1813Ode XV. The Parthenon. On the Dilapidation of the Temple of Minerva at Athens.
PUBLICATIONS:
The runaway: or the seat of benevolence. 4 vols, 1800.
Trevanion: or matrimonial errors. 4 vols, 1801.
Horatio: or memoirs of the Davenport family. 1807.
Rejected addresses: or the new theatrum poetarum. 1812.
First impressions, or trade in the West: a comedy. 1813.
Horace in London: consisting of imitations of the first two books of the Odes of Horace. 1813.
Amarynthus the nympholept: a pastoral drama, with other poems. 1821.
Gaieties and gravities: a series of essays, comic tales, and fugitive vagaries. 3 vols, 1825.
The Tor hill. 3 vols, 1826.
Brambletye House: or cavaliers and roundheads. 3 vols, 1826.
Reuben Apsley. 3 vols, 1827.
Zillah: a tale of the Holy City. 4 vols, 1828.
The New Forest: a novel. 3 vols, 1829.
The midsummer medley for 1830: a series of comic tales. 3 vols, 1830.
Walter Colyton: a tale of 1688. 3 vols, 1830.
Festivals, games and amusements, ancient and modern. 1831.
Tales of the early ages. 3 vols, 1832.
Fale Middleton: a story of the present day. 3 vols, 1833.
The involuntary prophet: a tale of the early ages. 1835.
The tin trumpet: or heads and tales. 2 vols, 1836.
Jame Lomax: or a mother's crime. 3 vols, 1838.
Oliver Cromwell: an historical romance. 3 vols, 1840.
Memoirs, letters, and comic miscellanies [James Smith, ed. Horace Smith]. 2 vols, 1840.
The moneyed man: or the lesson of a life. 3 vols, 1841.
Massaniello: a historical romance. 3 vols, 1842.
Adam Brown: the merchant. 3 vols, 1843.
Arthur Arundel: a tale of the English revolution. 3 vols, 1844.
Love and Mesmerism. 3 vols, 1845.
Poetical works. 2 vols, 1846.
Poems. 1889.
PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:
English
Anglican
Inns of Court
lawyer
poet
novelist
The Pic-Nic
Poetical Register
The Champion
New Monthly Magazine
London Magazine
London Review
Friendship's Offering
Literary Souvenir
The Amulet
The Bijou
The Gem
Book of Beauty
The Diadem
Thomas Barnes
Bernard Barton
John Britton
Thomas Campbell
William Combe
Richard Cumberland
Charles Dibdin
William Godwin
William Hazlitt
Thomas Hood
Leigh Hunt
John Keats
Charles Lamb
Rev. Thomas Maurice
John Hamilton Reynolds
Sir Walter Scott
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Horace Twiss
Alaric Alexander Watts
REFERENCE:
DNB; NCBEL; CBEL (3rd ed); DLB.
Francis Jeffrey, "Rejected Addresses" Edinburgh Review 20 (July-November 1812): 434-451; Dictionary of Living Authors (1816); Robert Watt, Bibliotheca Britannica (1824); Leigh Hunt, in Lord Byron and some of his Contemporaries (1828); The Georgian Era: Memoirs of the most Eminent Persons (1832-34); "New Edition of Rejected Addresses" Fraser's Magazine 8 (July 1833) 36-44; Allan Cunningham, "Literature of the last Fifty Years" The Athenaeum (30 November 1833) 811; Robert Chambers, Cyclopaedia of English Literature (1844); Horace Smith, "A Graybeard's Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance" New Monthly Magazine 79-82 (1847-1848); obituary in Gentleman's Magazine NS 32 (September 1849) 320-21; P. G. Patmore, in My Friends and Acquaintances, 3 vols (1855); Abraham Hayward, "James Smith" in Biographical and Critical Essays, 2 vols (1858); Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1858-71; 1882); memoir in Rejected Addresses (1871); Margaret Oliphant, Literary History of England (1882) 3:175-79; Arthur H. Beavan, James and Horace Smith (1899); Moulton, Library of Literary Criticism (1901-05); Edmund Blunden, "The Rejected Addresses" in Votive Tablets (1931); Hyder E. Rollins, "Letters of Horace Smith to his Publisher Colburn" Harvard Library Bulletin 3 (1949) 359-70; Jack, OHEL (1963); Donald H. Reiman, introduction to Rejected Addresses etc. (1977); Stuart Curran, "The View From Versailles: Horace Smith on the Literary Scene of 1822" Huntington Library Quarterly 40 (August 1977) 357-371; Romantic Parodies, ed. David A. Kent and D. R. Ewen (1992); Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Database (1995).
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