Charles Wentworth Dilke

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Charles Wentworth Dilke (1789–1864), English liberal critic and writer on literature, served for many years in the Navy Pay-Office, on retiring from which he devoted himself to literary pursuits. His liberal political views and literary interests brought him into contact with Leigh Hunt, the editor of The Examiner. He had in 1814-16 made a continuation of Dodsley's Collection of English Plays, and in 1829 he became part proprietor and editor of Athenaeum magazine, the influence of which he greatly extended. In 1846 he resigned the editorship, and assumed that of The Daily News, but contributed to Athenaeum his famous papers on Alexander Pope, Edmund Burke, Junius, etc., and shed much new light on his subjects. His grandson, Sir Charles Dilke, published these writings in 1875 under the title, Papers of a Critic.

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• This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.