Henry Francis Cary

Henry Francis Cary (6 December 1772 – 14 August 1844) was a British cleric and author-translator, best known for his blank verse translation of The Divine Comedy of Dante.

Quotes

• The gaudy minstrel of the morn.
  • Sonnets and Odes (1788), sonnet 1

• All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
  • Translating Dante, Inferno, canto 3 (London, 1805–6)