Happy that author whose correct essay

DMI number:

2104

Poem Aliases

Roscommon. Essay on translated verse.

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Absolute (100%)

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Happy that author whose correct essay

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Which none know better and none come so near

Poem Genre / Form:

Blank verse and Couplet

Themes:

Poetry / literature / writing

Related People

Author:

Wentworth Dillon

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Niemayer (1939): 630. Chalmers (1810) VIII: 261-264.

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Content/Publication

Title:

A select collection of modern poems [N21690]

Page No(s):

pp.21-35

Poem Title:

An Essay on Translated Verse.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Roscomon.

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

Title:

A select collection of modern poems [T813]

Page No(s):

pp.55-70

Poem Title:

An Essay on Translated Verse.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Roscomon.

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

Title:

Poems by the Earl of Roscomon. To which is added, An essay on poetry, by the Earl of Mulgrave, now Duke of Buckingham. Together with Poems by Mr. Richard Duke. [T132427]

Page No(s):

pp.1-53

Poem Title:

An Essay On Translated Verse.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

Title:

Sylvae: or the second part of poetical miscellanies [T116469]

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pp.1-18

Poem Title:

An Essay on Translated Verse.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Roscommon

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

Title:

The minor poets or the works of the most celebrated authors [vol 1] [N6033]

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pp.3-15

Poem Title:

An Essay on Translated Verse.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Roscommon.

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

Title:

The works of celebrated authors of whose writings there are but small remains [vol I] [T145013] [ecco]

Page No(s):

pp.3-15

Poem Title:

An Essay on Translated Verse.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

Title:

The Works of the most celebrated Minor Poets [vol. 1] [2nd ed] [T185023] [ECCO]

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pp.3-14

Poem Title:

An Essay On Translated Verse.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name.

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

Title:

The Works of the most celebrated Minor Poets [vol. 1] [N25943] [ECCO] (1751)

Page No(s):

pp.3-14

Poem Title:

An Essay On Translated Verse.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name.

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

Title:

The Works of the most celebrated Minor Poets [vol. 1] [T79268]

Page No(s):

pp.3-14

Poem Title:

An Essay on Translated Verse

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon