Henry Carey

Henry Carey
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Short Name: Henry Carey
Full Name: Carey, Henry, 1687-1743
Birth Year (est.): 1687
Death Year: 1743

Henry Carey, b. 1685 (?); d. London, 1743

Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908

Wikipedia Biography

Henry Carey (c. 26 August 1687 – 5 October 1743) was an English poet, dramatist and songwriter. He is remembered as an anti-Walpolean satirist and also as a patriot. Several of his melodies continue to be sung today, and he was widely praised in the generation after his death. Because he worked in anonymity, selling his own compositions to others to pass off as their own, contemporary scholarship can only be certain of some of his poetry, and a great deal of the music he composed was written for theatrical incidental music. However, under his own name and hand, he was a prolific songwriter and balladeer, and he wrote the lyrics for almost all of these songs. Further, he wrote numerous operas and plays. His life is illustrative of the professional author in the early 18th century. Without i

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