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He was born in Ireland in October 1637, son of James Dillon and Elizabeth Wentworth, sister to the ill-fated 16t Earl of Strafford.
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He was born in Ireland in October 1637, son of James Dillon and Elizabeth Wentworth, sister to the ill-fated 16t Earl of Strafford.
He was sent to France during the English civil wars and attended a Protestant university at Caen.
Returning in 1660, he formed a literary society with Halifax, Dorset, Dryden, and others. He translated Horace's Ars Poetica into blank verse in 1680, composed an Essay on Translated Verse (1684), largely in rhymed couplets, and was the first critic to praise Milton's Paradise Lost.
He was buried in Westminster Abbey on January 21, 1685.
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He was sent to France during the English civil wars and attended a Protestant university at Caen.
Roscommon believed that a low code of morals was necessarily followed by a corresponding degradation in literature, and he insists that sincerity and sympathy with the subject in hand are essential qualities in the poet. This elevated conception of his art is in itself no small merit. He has, moreover, the distinction of having been the first critic to avow his admiration for Milton's Paradise Lost.
He was twice married, in 1662 to Lady Frances Boyle, daughter of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington, and widow of Colonel Francis Courtenay, and in 1674 to Isabella Boynton, who outlived him and died in 1721. He had no issue by either marriage.