Charles Cayley

Charles Bagot Cayley (1823–1883) was an English linguist, best known for translating Dante into the metre of the original, with annotations. He also made metrical versions of Homer’s Iliad, the Prometheus of Æschylus, and Il Canzoniere of Petrarch.

The translations from the

The Divine Comedy is much more successful, preserving the Dante's terza rima rhyme scheme while using a relatively simple English which reflects Dante's own use of ordinary Italian

. Charles Bagot Cayley also published a collection of his own poems, Psyche's Interludes.

From Mr Pollecary's school, Blackheath, Charles Cayley went to Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in 1845 with a BA in the classical tripos.^[1] He also studied at King's College London, under Gabriele Rossetti.

In his youth he obtained a post in the Patent Office, but gave this up when he embarked on an early venture into billboard advertising at railway stations. The venture was ahead of its time and he lost most of his money. The rest of his life he spent in relative poverty. The accounts of

High Church Anglican). They remained close friends until his death, and several of her poems were written with him in mind. His brother was the mathematician Arthur Cayley

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^ "Cayley, Charles Bagot (CLY841CB)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wood, James, ed. (1907). "Cayley, Charles Bagot". The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne.

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[1] "Cayley, Charles Bagot (CLY841CB)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

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