A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of

by John William Cousin

Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of (1633?-1685).—Poet, nephew of the famous Earl of Strafford, was b. in Ireland. He studied and travelled on the Continent, and enjoyed a considerable literary reputation in his own day on the strength of a poetical Essay on Translated Verse, and translations from Horace's Art of Poetry.