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Richard Carew ( 1555 - 1620) was an English translator and antiquary.

A county gentleman of Cornwall, he was educated at Oxford University, and 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).

:This article is originally from A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

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