Horne, Richard Henry (1803–1884)

English poet and critic. His best-known work is A New Spirit of the Age 1844, containing critical studies of contemporary writers. He also published two tragedies, Cosmo de' Medici and The Death of Marlowe both 1837, and an epic poem Orion 1843. His correspondence with Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1839–46 was published 1877.

Horne was born in London and educated at Sandhurst. He became a midshipman in the Mexican navy and served in the war against Spain. He lived in Australia 1852–69, where he published Australian Facts and Prospects and Australian Autobiography 1859.