ABSTRACT
Richard Carew (1555-1620) was educated at Christ Church, where he was a younger contemporary of Sir Philip Sidney. Better known as an antiquary than anything else, he became an active member of the Society of Antiquaries in 1589. The Survey of Cornwall (Cornwall was his native county) secured his reputation in this field. His enthusiasm for Spenser as a descriptive poet, if the author of the second of these two pieces is indeed Carew, may derive from his antiquarian interests. The comparison of Spenser with Lucan in the first piece is ambiguously complimentary: compare Sidney on Lucan in his Apology for Poetry. For another notice by Carew on Spenser, see No. 145.
