Author: Horace SmithPublisher:
ISBN: 9781330837054
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Horace Smith and James Smith With Portraits and a Biographical Sketch The present is the first American edition of the collected poems of Horace Smith. Many of them have been printed in our newspapers and magazines, and not a few are favorites familiar to all true lovers of poetry. No one can read them without admitting the just claim of their author to a high place among the sons of song. His humorous pieces, too, are neat and lively versifications of anecdotes that usually carry with them a point if not a moral. While as a poet Horace Smith was incomparably superior to his brother, the latter, in his vers de societe, may claim perhaps equal merit. Spencer and Praed were not more felicitous in their poetry of fashion than James Smith. The topics show the man and his associations, and his poems arc so many finished daguerreotypes of London society in the first half of the nineteenth century. In this light they will always be interesting and amusing - and may be admitted into collections of British poetry, from which similar sketches by Swift and Prior, of a grosser period, ought to be excluded. It is no small virtue of the popular writers whose poems are contained in our present volume, that, though wits and satirists, they are always gentlemen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.