Horace Smith

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).

COMMENTARY RECORDS
for Horace Smith:

1.	1812  Mary Russell Mitford to Sir William Elford, 27 October 1812; L'Estrange, Life of Mary Russell Mitford (1870) 1:169.
2.	1812  Henry Crabb Robinson, 20 November 1812; Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence (1870; 1872) 1:209.
3.	1812  Francis Jeffrey, Review of James and Horace Smith, Rejected Addresses; Edinburgh Review 20 (November 1812) 435-51.
4.	1813  Robert Southey to C. W. W. Wynn, 16 July 1813; Selections from the Letters, ed. Warter (1856) 2:325.
5.	1813  John Taylor Esq., "On the new Work by the Authors of the New Theatrum Poetarum" The Sun (1 March 1813).
6.	1813  J. S. W., "To the Authors of the celebrated Rejected Addresses and Horace in London" European Magazine 63 (May 1813) 415.
7.	1817  John Keats to Benjamin Bayley, 8 October 1817; Works, ed. H. Buxton Forman (1901) 4:37.
8.	1817  Leigh Hunt, "To H***** S****, Esq." The Examiner (4 January 1818) 9.
9.	1818  Peter Pastoral, "Imitation of Leigh Hunt's Sonnet to Horace S—" The Champion (25 January 1818) 58.
10.	1820  Percy Bysshe Shelley, in "Letter to Maria Gisborne" 1820; Posthumous Poems (1824) 67.
11.	1823  Anonymous, in "The Literary Police Office, Bow-Street, London" Port Folio [Philadelphia] S4 15 (June 1823) 506.
12.	1824  Robert Southey, 27 May 1824, Life and Correspondence (1849-50) 1:106-07.
13.	1824  Charles Lamb to W. Marter, 19 July 1824; Letters, ed. Lucas (1935) 432.
14.	1828  Walter Scott, 4 February 1828; The Journal of Sir Walter Scott, 1825-32 (1891) 533.
15.	1828  Leigh Hunt, in Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (1828) 282-88.
16.	1833  Allan Cunningham, in "Biographical and Critical History of the Literature of the last Fifty Years" The Athenaeum (30 November 1833) 811.
17.	1835  Thomas Campbell, "Epistle, from Algiers, to Horace Smith" 1835; Poetical Works, ed. Robertson (1907) 319-21.
18.	1851  David Macbeth Moir, in Sketches of the Poetical Literature of the Past Half-Century (1851; 1852) 197-99.
19.	1858  Cyrus Redding, in Fifty Years' Recollections (1858) 2:198-210.
20.	1861  Charles Cowden Clarke, 1861; Recollections of Writers (1878) 132-33.
21.	1871  S. C. Hall, "James and Horace Smith" in A Book of Memories: Great Men and Women of the Age, from personal Acquaintance (1871) 255-60.
22.	1882  Epes Sargent, in Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry (1882) 352.
23.	1891  Samuel Smiles, "Rejected Addresses" A Publisher and his Friends: Memoir of John Murray (1891) 2:77.

BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for Horace Smith:

1.	1816  Anonymous, in Biographical Dictionary of Living Authors (1816) 320.
2.	1828  Leigh Hunt, "Mssrs. James and Horace Smith" in Lord Byron and some of his Contemporaries (1828) 282-88.
3.	1844  Robert Chambers, in Cyclopaedia of English Literature (1844; 1850) 2:429-31. 2:628-29.
4.	1849  Anonymous, Obituary in Gentleman's Magazine NS 32 (September 1849) 320-21.
5.	1882  Margaret Oliphant, in The Literary History of England (1882) 3:175-79.

AUTHOR AS CRITIC:
(commentary records)

1.	1847  Thomas Barnes:   Horace Smith, in "A Graybeard's Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance" New Monthly Magazine 81 (1847) 418-20.
2.	1847  Sir James Bland Burges:   Horace Smith, in "A Graybeard's Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance" New Monthly Magazine 79 (March 1847) 307-08.
3.	1847  Thomas Campbell:   Horace Smith, in "A Graybeard's Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance" New Monthly Magazine 79 (July 1847) 297.
4.	1847  George Colman the Younger:   Horace Smith, in "A Graybeard's Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance" New Monthly Magazine 79 (March 1847) 48.
5.	1847  William Combe:   Horace Smith, in "A Graybeard's Gossip about his literary Acquaintance" New Monthly Magazine 79 (March 1847) 306-07.
6.	1847  Richard Cumberland:   Horace Smith, in "A Graybeard's Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance" New Monthly Magazine 79 (March 1847) 41-43.
7.	1847  Barron Field:   Horace Smith, "A Graybeard's Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance" New Monthly Magazine 81 (1847) 420-21.
8.	1847  Percy Bysshe Shelley:   Horace Smith, in "A Graybeard's Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance" New Monthly Magazine 81 (1847) 238-40.
9.	1847  Robert Southey:   Horace Smith, in "A Graybeard's Gossip about his Literary Contemporaries" New Monthly Magazine 81 (December 1847) 423-24.
10.	1848  William Godwin:   Horace Smith, in "A Graybeard's Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance" New Monthly Magazine 82 (March 1848) 338-39.
11.	1848  Thomas Hood:   Horace Smith, in "A Graybeard's Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance" New Monthly Magazine 82 (March 1848) 337-38.