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Born in 1595 / Died in 1645 / United Kingdom / English

Bibliography

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Books

  • Cælum Britanicum. A Masque at White-Hall in the Banquetting-House, on Shrove-Tuesday-Night, the 18 of February, 1633 (London: Printed for Thomas Walkley, 1634).
  • Poems. By Thomas Carew Esquire (London: Printed by I. Dawson for Thomas Walkley, 1640; enlarged, 1642; third edition, enlarged, London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1651).

Editions

  • The Poems of Thomas Carew with His Masque Coelum Britannicum, edited by Rhodes Dunlap (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1949).

Other

  • "To my Honoured friend, Master Thomas May," in Thomas May's The Heire an Excellent Comedie (London: Printed by B. Alsop for T. Jones, 1622).
  • "To my worthy Friend, M. D'Avenant," in Sir William Davenant's The Lust Italian (London: Printed by T. Harper for J. Waterson, 1630).
  • "In Celias face a question did a rise" and "He that loves a Rosie Cheeke," in Walter Porter's Madrigales and Ayres (London: Printed by W. Stansby, 1632).
  • "An Elegie upon the death of the Deane of Pauls, D. Iohn Donne," in John Donne's Poems (London: Printed by M. F. for John Marriot, 1633).
  • "To the Reader of Master Davenant's Play," in Davenant's The Witts: A Comedie (London: Printed by A. Mathewes for R. Meighen, 1636).
  • "To my worthy friend Master Geo. Sands," in George Sandys's A Paraphrase Vpon the Divine Poems (London: Printed by John Legatt, 1638 [i.e., 1637]).
  • "To my much honoured friend, Henry Lord Cary of Lepington, upon his translation of Malvezzi," in Virgilio Malvezzi's Romvlus and Tarquin, translated by Henry Lord Cary, second edition (London: Printed by J. Haviland for J. Benson, 1638).
  • "To Will. Davenant my Friend," in Davenant's Madagascar: With Other Poems (London: Printed by J. Haviland for T. Walkley, 1638).
  • "Song. Conquest by Flight," in Samuel Pick's Festum Voluptatis (London: Printed by E. Purslowe for B. Langford, 1639).



Sir Matthew Carew's correspondence with Sir Dudley Carleton and his agent, Edward Sherburne, is in the Public Record Office, London. Manuscripts including texts of Carew's poems are scattered throughout the United Kingdom and the United States, the most important single repositories being the British Library, London, and the Bodleian Library, Oxford.