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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Henry Francis Cary (1772–1844)

Cary, Henry Francis. An English poet and translator of Dante; born at Gibraltar, Spain, Dec. 6, 1772; died in London, Aug. 14, 1844. Although his fame rests upon his version of Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy,’ he possessed an intimate knowledge of Latin, Greek, and French and translated masterpieces from those languages adequately and with grace.