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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 709 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HORNE, RICHARD HENRY, or HENGIST (1803–1884)  ,
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English poet and critic, was born in
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London on New
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Year's Day 1803 . He was intended for the army, and entered at
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Sandhurst, but receiving no commission, he
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left his country and joined the Mexican
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navy . He served in the war against Spain, and underwent many adventures . Returning to England, he became a journalist, and in 1836–1837 edited The Monthly Repository . In 1837 he published two tragedies, Canna de Medici and The
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Death of Marlowe, and in 1841 a
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History of
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Napoleon . The
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book, however, by which he lives is his epic of Orion, which appeared in 1843 . It was published originally at a farthing, was widely read, and passed through many
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editions . In the next year he set forth a
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volume of critical essays called A New Spirit of the Age, in which he was assisted by Elizabeth Barrett (Mrs Browning), with whom, from 1839 to her
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marriage in 1845, he conducted a voluminous correspondence . In 1852 he went to
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Australia in
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company with William Howitt, and did not return to England until 1869 . He received a
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Civil List pension in 1874, and died at
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Margate on the 13th of March 1884 . Horne possessed extraordinary versatility, but, except in the case of Orion, he never attained to a very high degree of distinction . That poem, indeed, has much of the quality of
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fine
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poetry; it is earnest, vivid and alive with spirit .

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early drove his talent too hard, and continued to write when he had little left to say . In criticism he had insight and quickness . He was one of the first to appreciate Keats and Tennyson, and he gave valuable encouragement to Mrs Browning when she was still
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Miss Elizabeth Barrett .

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