caption movement death_date death_place birth_place birth_date image article_title name occupation
portrait , circa 1840 of horace smith by an unknown artist watercolour romanticism 12 july 1849 tunbridge wells london 31 december 1779 horatio smith.jpg horace smith -lrb- poet -rrb-
 horace smith poet , novelist
horace smith -lrb- poet -rrb-

horace -lrb- born horatio -rrb- smith -lrb- 31 december 1779 -- 12 july 1849 -rrb- was an english poet and novelist , perhaps best known for his participation in a sonnet-writing 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 . ''
