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Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon, 4th earl of
(rskm´n) (KEY) , 1633?1685, English poet and scholar, b. Ireland. He was one of the first to praise Miltons genius. Besides making a blank-verse translation (1680) of Horaces Ars poetica, he wrote an Essay on Translated Verse (1684).