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, and younger brother of Charles Hopkins.

Life

He was born on 1 January 1675. John Hopkins graduated B.A. in 1693, and proceeded M.A. in 1698 from

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Works

Hopkins published in 1698 two

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poems: *''The Triumphs of Peace, or the Glories of Nassau … written at the time of his Grace the Duke of Ormond's entrance into Dublin''; and *''The Victory of Death; or the Fall of Beauty'', on the death of Lady Cutts (Elizabeth, second wife of

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). In the following year he issued ''Milton's Paradise Lost imitated in Rhyme. In the Fourth, Sixth, and Ninth Books: Containing the Primitive Loves. The Battel of the Angels. The Fall of Man''. His final work was a collection of love-verses and translations from

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, ''Amasia, or the Works of the Muses … In three volumes'', 1700, with a general dedication to

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, and dedications of particular sections to various persons of distinction. There is a derisive notice on Hopkins in ''A Session of the Poets'', 1704–5.

References

;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Hopkins, John 1675 births Year of death missing Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge English male poets