WENTWORTH DILLON, 4TH EARL of ROSCOMMON BIOGRAPHY
WENTWORTH DILLON, 4TH EARL of ROSCOMMON BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
ROSCOMMON, WENTWORTH DILLON, 4TH EARL of (1633?-1685). —Poet, nephew of the famous Earl of Strafford, was born 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 .