'''Charles Wentworth Dilke''' ([[1789]] - –[[1864]]), English critic and writer on literature, served for many years in the Navy Pay-Office, on retiring from which he devoted himself to literary pursuits. He had in [[1814]]-[[1816|16]] made a continuation of Dodsley's ''[[Collection of English Plays]]'', and in [[1829]] he became part proprietor and editor of ''[[Athenaeum (magazine)|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 Wentworth Dilke, 2nd Baronet|Sir C.W.Charles Dilke]], published these writings in [[1875]] under the title, ''[[Papers of a Critic]]''.
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