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

…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…