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Description:
The
Hartford Wits
(also called the
Connecticut Wits
) were a group of American writers centered around
Yale University
and flourished in the 1780s and 1790s. Mostly graduates of Yale, they were conservative
federalists
who attacked their political opponents with
satirical
verse. Members included
Joel Barlow
,
Timothy Dwight IV
,
David Humphreys
,
John Trumbull
,
Lemuel Hopkins
,
Richard Alsop
, and
Theodore Dwight
. Works produced by the group include
The Anarchiad
(published in the
New Haven Gazette
from 1786–1787),
The Political Greenhouse
(
Connecticut Courant
, 1799), and
The Echo
(
American Mercury
, 1791–1805).
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