Top: Arts: Literature: Authors: C: Carew, Richard

[ history ]

Biography

CAREW, RICHARD (1555-1620). —Translator and antiquary, a county gentleman of Cornwall, ed. at Oxf., made a translation of the first five cantos of Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1594), more correct than that of Fairfax. Other works were A Survey of Cornwall (1602), and an Epistle concerning the Excellencies of the English Tongue (1605). 



 All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyright Policy for details.)
© Open-Site Foundation, Inc.
Hosted by Android Technologies, Inc. the medical robotics news source.
Visit our sister sites dmoz.org | mozilla.org | chefmoz.org | musicmoz.org