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From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Date: 20080415
Author:
Richard Henry Horne or Richard Hengist Horne, 1802-84, English author. His chief work was the allegorical poem
Orion
(1843).
A New Spirit of the Age
(1844), written with Elizabeth Barrett (later Elizabeth Barrett Browning) and others, contains social and literary studies. His correspondence with Miss Barrett was published in 1877. Of his plays, he was best known for the tragedies
Cosmo de' Medici
and
The Death of Marlowe
(both: 1837).
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HORNE, RICHARD HENRY.
,
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2008
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