Life and Letters, Beattie (1840); Poems, Aldine ed. (1875, new, 1890).

CAMPION, THOMAS (c. 1575-1620).—­Poet and musician, b. at Witham, Essex, and ed. at Camb., and on the Continent, studied law at Gray’s Inn, but discarding it, practised medicine in London.  He wrote masques, and many fine lyrics remarkable for their metrical beauty, of which “Cherry Ripe” and “Lesbia” are well known.  He also wrote Epigrams in Latin, and Observations on the Arte of Poesie (1602).  He composed the music for most of his songs.

CANNING, GEORGE (1770-1827).—­Statesman, was b. in London, the s. of a lawyer.  He lost his f. while still an infant, and was brought up by an uncle, who sent him to Eton and Oxf.  In 1793 he entered Parliament as a supporter of Pitt, and soon became one of the most brilliant debaters in the House.  After filling various offices, including that of Foreign Sec., with striking ability, he was in 1827 appointed Prime Minister, but d., deeply mourned by the nation, a few months later.  He has a place in literature as the leading spirit in the Anti-Jacobin, a paper started during the French Revolution, in support of the English Constitution, and which, with Gifford for ed., had many of the most eminent men of the day as contributors.  C. wrote the Needy Knife-grinder, The Loves of the Triangles, parts II. and III., a parody on E. Darwin’s Loves of the Plants, The Progress of Man, etc.  His coll. Poems were pub. 1823.

CAPGRAVE, JOHN (1393-1464).—­Historian and theologian, b. at Lynn, became an Augustinian Friar, and at length Provincial of the Order in England.  He studied probably at Camb., visited Rome, and was a client of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, whose life he wrote.  He was the author of numerous theological and historical works, some of which are of considerable importance, including in Latin, Nova Legenda Angliae, De Illustribus Henricis:  lives of German Emperors, English Kings, etc., of the name of Henry, and in English, monotonous and dull, lives of St. Gilbert and St. Katharine, and a Chronicle reaching to 1417.

CAREW, RICHARD (1555-1620).—­Translator and antiquary, a county gentleman of Cornwall, ed. at Oxf., made a translation of the first five cantos of Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered (1594), more correct than that of Fairfax.  Other works were A Survey of Cornwall (1602), and an Epistle concerning the Excellencies of the English Tongue (1605).

CAREW, THOMAS (1594?-1639).—­Poet, s. of Sir Matthew C., was ed. at Oxf., entered the Middle Temple, and was one of the first and best of the courtly poets who wrote gracefully on light themes of Court life and gallantry.  C.’s poems have often much beauty and even tenderness.  His chief work is Coelum Britannicum.  He lived the easy and careless life of a courtier of the day, but is said to have d. in a repentant frame.  His poems, consisting chiefly of short lyrics, were coll. and pub. after his death.  One of the most beautiful and best known of his songs is that beginning “He that loves a rosy cheek.”