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An Essay on Milton’s Use and Imitation of the Moderns in his Paradise Lost
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An Essay on Milton’s Use and Imitation of the Moderns in his Paradise Lost

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    …Gentleman’s Magazine, subsequently collected as An Essay on Milton’s Use and Imitation of the Moderns in his Paradise Lost (1750). In preparation for his essays, Lauder interpolated lines from a Latin translation of Paradise Lost into the Latin verse of several 17th-century poets, notably Hugo Grotius, Jacobus Masenius, and Andrew…

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