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HORNE, RICHARD HENRY, or HENGIST (180...

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

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

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