HORNE, RICHARD HENRY or HENGIST (1803 1884), English poet and critic, was born in London. He was entered at Sandhurst, but receiving no commission he joined the Mexican navy, and served in the war against Spain. In 1837 he published two tragedies, Cosmo de Medici and The Death of Marlowe, and in 1841 a History of Napoleon. The book, however, by which he lives is his epic of Orion (1843) . It was published originally at a farthing, and passed through many editions. In a volume of critical essays, A New Spirit of the Age (1884), he was assisted by Elizabeth Barrett (Mrs. Browning), with whom from 1839 to her marriage in 1846, he conducted a voluminous correspondence. The years 1852-69 were spent in Australia, where he was a commissioner of lands. He received a civil list pension in 1874.