Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon (1633–1685)
| Irish poet and translator. He was born in Dublin, and educated in France at the University of Caen. His works include a poetical Essay on Translated Verse (1684), which argued the case for freeing poetry from the constraints of rhyme, and a translation of the Roman writer Horace's Ars Poetica. |
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