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Cary, Henry Francis
(b. 1772; d. 1844). “Inferno of Dante, with an English Translation in Blank Verse” (1806); “Translation of the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso” (1813); “Lives of the English Poets, from Johnson to Kirke White” (1846); “The Early French Poets” (1847). Mr. Cary also translated the “Birds” of Aristophanes and the “Odes” of Pindar. See “Memoirs of the Rev. H. F. Cary,” by his son.
