Articles
Van Dover, J.K. “The Design of Anarchy: ‘The Anarchiad’, 1786-1787.” Early American Literature, Vo. 24, No. 3 (1989): 237-247. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25056781
Digital Collections
Anarchiad: a New England poem, 1786-1787 / Humphreys, Barlow, Trumbull and Hopkins [electronic text].” In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAD5699.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 10, 2025.
“M’Fingal: a modern epic poem, in four cantos. / By John Trumbull, Esq. ; Embellished with nine copper plates; designed and engraved by E. Tisdale.” In the digital collection Evans Early American Imprint Collection. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N22447.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 10, 2025.
Books
Beers, Henry A. The Connecticut Wits, and Other Essays. Yale University Press, 1920.
Lehman, Eric. D., and Amy Nawrocki. Literary Connecticut: The Hartford Wits, Mark Twain and the New Millenium. The History Press, 2014.
Marble, Annie Russell. Tercentenary Commission of the State of Connecticut Committee on Historical Publications, LIX The Hartford Wits. Yale University Press, 1936.
Parrington, Vernon Louis, ed. The Connecticut Wits. Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1954.
Van Dover, J.K. “The Design of Anarchy: ‘The Anarchiad’, 1786-1787.” Early American Literature, Vo. 24, No. 3 (1989): 237-247. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25056781