Thomas Carew
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Thomas Carew was an English poet, among the 'Cavalier' group of Caroline poets.
Possible likeness of Carew from a double portrait by Anthony van Dyck
John Suckling (poet)
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Sir John Suckling was an English poet, prominent among those renowned for careless gaiety and wit – the accomplishments of a cavalier poet. He also invented the card game cribbage. He is best known fo
Thomas Carew
…on the poet. Probably in 1630 Carew was made "server" or taster-in-ordinary to the king. To this period may be attributed his close friendships with Sir John Suckling, Ben Jonson and Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon; the latter described Carew as "a person of pleasant and facetious wit." John Donne, whose celebrity…
Sir John Suckling holding the open First Folio
Fragmenta Aurea, 1646