John Hopkins (poet)

John Hopkins (born 1675) was an Anglo-Irish poet.

[1] Hopkins published in 1698 two Pindaric poems: In the following year he issued Milton's Paradise Lost imitated in Rhyme.

In the Fourth, Sixth, and Ninth Books: Containing the Primitive Loves.

His final work was a collection of love-verses and translations from Ovid, Amasia, or the Works of the Muses … In three volumes, 1700, with a general dedication to Isabella FitzRoy, Duchess of Grafton, and dedications of particular sections to various persons of distinction.

[1] There is a derisive notice on Hopkins in A Session of the Poets, 1704–5.