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See also:CAREW, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1595–1645?) , See also:English poet, was the son of See also:Sir See also:Matthew Carew, See also:master in See also:chancery, and his wife, Alice Ingpenny, widow of Sir See also:John See also:Rivers, See also:lord See also:mayor of See also:London. The poet was probably the third of the eleven See also:children of his parents, and was See also:born at See also:West Wickham in See also:Kent, in the See also:early See also:part of 1595, for he was thirteen years of See also:age in See also:June 16o8, when he matriculated at Merton See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford. He took his degree of B.A. early in 1611, and proceeded to study at the See also:Middle See also:Temple. Two years later his See also:father complained to Sir See also:Dudley See also:Carleton that he was doing little at the See also:law. He was in consequence sent to See also:Italy, as a member of Sir Dudley's See also:household, and when the See also:ambassador returned from See also:Venice, he seems to have kept Thomas Carew with him, for he is found in the capacity of secretary to Sir Dudley Carleton, at the See also:Hague, early in 1616. From this See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office he was dismissed in the autumn of that See also:year for levity and See also:slander; he had See also:great difficulty in finding another situation. In See also:August 1618 his father died, and Carew entered the service of Lord See also:Herbert of Cherbury, in whose See also:train he started for See also:France in See also:March 1619, and it is believed that he travelled in Herbert's See also:company until that nobleman returned to See also:England, at the See also:close of his See also:diplomatic See also:missions, in See also:April 1624. Carew " followed the See also:court before he was of it," not receiving the definite See also:appointment of See also:gentleman of the privy chamberuntil 1628. While Carew held this office, he displayed his tact and presence of mind by stumbling and extinguishing the See also:candle he was holding to See also:light See also:Charles I. into the See also:queen's chamber, because he saw that Lord St Albans had his See also:arm See also:round her See also:majesty's See also:neck. The See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king suspected nothing, and the queen heaped favours on the poet. Probably in 163o, Carew was made " server " or taster-in-See also:ordinary to the king. To this See also:period may be attributed his close friendship with Sir John Suckling,' See also:Ben See also:Jonson and See also:Clarendon; the latter says that Carew was " a See also:person of pleasant and facetious wit." See also:Donne, whose celebrity as a court-preacher lasted until his See also:death in 1631, exercised a powerful if not entirely healthful See also:influence over the See also:genius of Carew. In See also:February 1633 a masque by the latter, entitled Coelum Britanicum, was acted in the banqueting-See also:house at See also:Whitehall, and was printed in 1634. The close of Carew's See also:life is absolutely obscure. It was See also:long supposed that he died in 1639, and this has been thought to be confirmed by the fact that the first edition of his Poems, published in 164o, seems to have a See also:posthumous See also:character. But Clarendon tells us that " after fifty years of life spent with less severity and exactness than it ought to have been, he died with the greatest' remorse for that See also:licence." If Carew was more than fifty years of age, he must have died in or after 1645, and in fact there were final additions made to his Poems in the third edition of 1651. See also:Walton tells us that Carew in his last illness, being afflicted with the horrors, sent in great haste to " the ever-memorable " John See also:Hales (1584–1656); Hales " told him he should have his prayers, but would by no means give him then either the See also:sacrament or See also:absolution."
Carew's poems, at their best, are brilliant lyrics of the purely sensuous See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order. They open to us, in his own phrase, " a mine of See also:rich and pregnant See also:fancy." His metrical See also:style was influenced by Jonson and his imagery still more clearly by Donne, for whom he had an almost servile admiration. His intellectual See also:power was not comparable with Donne's, but Carew had a lucidity and directness of lyrical utterance unknown to Donne. It is perhaps his greatest distinction that he is the earliest of the See also:Cavalier See also:song-writers by profession, of whom See also:Rochester is the latest, poets who turned the disreputable incidents of an idle court-life into See also:poetry which was often of the rarest delicacy and the purest See also:melody and See also:colour. The longest and best of Carew's poems, " A Rapture," would be more widely appreciated if the rich flow of its See also:imagination were restrained by greater reticence of See also:taste.
The best edition of Carew's Poems is that prepared by See also:Arthur See also:Vincent in 1899. (E.
End of Article: CAREW, THOMAS (1595–1645?)
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