Quotes:Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon

Zirkoff, Boris

Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon (ca. 1630-1685). English poet born in Ireland; educated partly by a tutor, partly at Caen, in Normandy, and partly at Rome. After the Restoration, returned to England and was well received at Court. In 1649, succeeded to the earldom of Roscommon and was put in possession by act of Parliament of all the lands his family owned before the Civil War. His reputation as a didactic writer and critic rests on his blank verse translation of the Ars Poetica (1680) and his Essay on Translated Verse (1684). As a writer, he was free from the indecencies of his contemporaries, and stood for a higher code of morals 589 in literature. He was buried in Westminster Abbey. See The Poetical Works of Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon. Edinburgh: Apollo Press, 1780.

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Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 11, pp. 588-589