HOVEY, RICHARD (1864-1900). An Ameri can poet, burn at Normal. Ill. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1885; studied for one year in the General Theological Seminary, New York: was for a time assistant in the Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, New York; and afterwards journalist, actor, dramatist, poet. and lecturer on English literature in Barnard College. New York. He passed some years in Europe, and was much influenced by French and Belgian poets, especially Maeterlinck, some of whose work he translated. His original verse was always marked by high aims, and he was ridding him self of affectations when he suddenly died. His many admirers felt that he had accomplished more than most of his poetic contemporaries, and that he died on the eve of great performances. Certainly his Launeelot and Guencrerc—a series of dramas comprising The Quest of Merlin. The Marriage of Guencrere, and The Birth of Galahad ( 1880-98 ) —and Taliesin: A Masque ( 1900 ) though they scarcely show dramatic mastery, ex hibit lyrical power and remarkable imagination. Seaward (1893) is an elegy upon T. W. Parsons (q.v.). Hovey also collaborated with Bliss Car
man (q.v.) in Songs from l'apabondia (1893; an other series. 1896), and published a collection of his miscellaneous poems in Along the Trail (IS9S). In these works he showed that he could touch the more immediate and ordinary human interests; but these are on the whole not em phasized in his work, which belongs to the ideal istic school.
HOW, WILLIASf WALSIIAM (1823-971. An English prelate, born at Shrewsbury. lie was educated at Oxford. and after holding several curateships became rector of Whittington Scrap shire (1851), which position he held until he went, to the Parish of Saint Andrew Undershaft, in London (1879). In that year he was ap pointed Suffragan Bishop of Bedford, and a year afterwards Bishop of Wakefield. His numerous works in prose include: Private Life and Minis tration of a Parish Priest (1873) ; Commentary upon Saint John (1879); The Papal ('taints in the Light of Scriptural History (1880 ; and some Pastoral Lectures (1883). He also wrote some Poems (1886) and Hymns (1886).