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HENRY FRANCIS CARY (1772-1844)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 439 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:FRANCIS See also:CARY (1772-1844)  , See also:English author and translator, was See also:born at See also:Gibraltar on the 6th of See also:December 1772, the son of a See also:captain in the See also:army . He was educated at the See also:grammar See also:schools of See also:Rugby, See also:Sutton Coldfield and See also:Birmingham, and at See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford, which he entered in 1790 . He took See also:holy orders, and was presented in 1797 to the vicarage of See also:Abbott's See also:Bromley in See also:Staffordshire . This See also:benefice he held till his See also:death . In 1800 he was also presented to the vicarage of Kingsbury in See also:Warwickshire . While still at school he had become a See also:regular contributor to the See also:Gentleman's See also:Magazine, and had published a See also:volume of Sonnets and Odes . At Christ Church he devoted much See also:time to the study of See also:French and See also:Italian literature; and the fruits of these studies appeared in the notes to his classic See also:translation of See also:Dante . The version of the Inferno was published in 1805, together with the See also:original See also:text . Soon afterwards See also:Cary moved to See also:London, where he became reader at See also:Berkeley See also:chapel, and subsequently lecturer at See also:Chiswick and See also:curate of the See also:Savoy . His version of the whole Divina Commedia did not appear till 1814 . It was published at Cary's own expense, as the publisher refused to undertake the See also:risk, owing to the failure incurred over the Inferno . The translation was brought to the See also:notice of See also:Samuel See also:Rogers by See also:Thomas See also:Moore .

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article on it by Ugo See also:Foscolo in the See also:Edinburgh See also:Review . This article, and praise bestowed on the See also:work by See also:Coleridge in a lecture at the Royal Institution, led to a See also:general See also:acknowledgment of its merit . Cary's Dante thus gradually took its See also:place among See also:standard See also:works, passing through four See also:editions in the translator's lifetime . It has the See also:great merits of accuracy, idiomatic vigour and readableness; it preserves the sincerity and vividness of the original; and, although many rivals have since appeared in the See also:field, it still holds an See also:honourable place . Its See also:blank See also:verse, however, cannot represent the See also:close See also:woven texture and the stately See also:music of the terza rimy of the original . In 1824 Cary published a translation of The Birds of See also:Aristophanes, and, about 1834, of the Odes of See also:Pindar . In 1826 he was appointed assistant-librarian in the See also:British Museum, a See also:post which he held for about eleven years . He resigned because the See also:appointment of keeper of the printed books, which should have been his in the See also:ordinary course of promotion, was refused him when it See also:fell vacant . In 1841 a See also:crown See also:pension of £200 a See also:year, obtained through the efforts of Samuel Rogers, was conferred on him . Cary's Lives of the See also:early French Poets, and Lives of English Poets (from See also:Johnson to See also:Henry See also:Kirke See also:White), intended as a continuation of Johnson's Lives of the Poets, were published in a collected See also:form in 1846 . He died in London on the 14th of See also:August 1844, and was buried in See also:Westminster See also:Abbey . A memoir was published by his son, Henry Cary, in 1847 .

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