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