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Richard Carew (1555 - 1620) was a Cornish translator and antiquary. The county gentleman of Cornwall, he was educated at Oxford University, and processed the translation of the number one 5 cantos of Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1594), more right than that of Fairfax. More works were A Survey of Cornwall (1602), and an Epistle concerning the Excellencies of the English Tongue (1605).
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Carew, Richard Biography of the poet and antiquary, from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. Richard Carew Dates of birth and death, his parents and children, and a biography. |
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