Wentworth Dillon, fourth earl of Roscommon

(1637-1685)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon, Earl of, 1633?-1685 NRA: Dillon, Wentworth (1633-1685) 4th Earl of Roscommon DNB: Dillon, Wentworth, fourth earl of Roscommon (1637-1685), poet LBT ID: LdRosco4 VIAF ID: 28000168 LOC ID: n84134013	B/BAP: 1637-10 DIED: 1685-01-17
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English poet; author of the acclaimed Essay on Translated Verse (1684) in imitation of Horace's Ars Poetica.
REFERENCES TO Wentworth Dillon, fourth earl of Roscommon: Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Chapter II Found 1: ¶ 2 “Dallas’s Recollections of Lord Byron” in Gentleman’s Magazine 94 (November 1824) 529-31 Found 1: ¶ 2 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) The Author’s Visit to Italy. Found 1: ¶ 210 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1809 Found 1: ¶ 2 “Moore’s Notices of Lord Byron” in Monthly Magazine NS 9 (February 1830) 183-97 Found 1: ¶ 25 “Lord Byron” in Monthly Review NS 13 (February 1830) 217-37 Found 1: ¶ 35 [Thomas Love Peacock], “Moore’s Letters and Journals of Byron” in Westminster Review 12 (January 1825) 269-304 Found 1: ¶ 85 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 6: Wm Gifford Verse 2: p. 66a p. 66a