{"id":802,"date":"2026-09-29T21:12:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T21:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/?p=802"},"modified":"2026-09-29T21:12:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T21:12:32","slug":"the-hartford-wits-biographical-and-critical-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/?p=802","title":{"rendered":"The Hartford Wits – Biographical and Critical Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Van Dover, J.K. \u201cThe Design of Anarchy: \u2018The Anarchiad\u2019, 1786-1787.\u201d <\/span>Early American Literature<\/span><\/i>, Vo. 24, No. 3 (1989): 237-247. https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/25056781<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Anarchiad: a New England poem, 1786-1787 \/ Humphreys, Barlow, Trumbull and Hopkins [electronic text].” In the digital collection\u202f<\/span>American Verse Project.\u202f<\/span><\/i>https:\/\/name.umdl.umich.edu\/BAD5699.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 10, 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n

“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\u202f<\/span>Evans Early American Imprint Collection.\u202f<\/span><\/i>https:\/\/name.umdl.umich.edu\/N22447.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 10, 2025.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\nBooks<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h6>\n

Beers, Henry A. <\/span>The Connecticut Wits<\/span><\/i>, and Other Essays. Yale University Press, 1920.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lehman, Eric. D., and Amy Nawrocki. <\/span>Literary Connecticut: The Hartford Wits, Mark Twain and the New Millenium<\/span><\/i>. The History Press, 2014.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Marble, Annie Russell. <\/span>Tercentenary Commission of the State of Connecticut Committee on Historical Publications, LIX The Hartford Wits<\/span><\/i>. Yale University Press, 1936.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Parrington, Vernon Louis, ed. <\/span>The Connecticut Wits<\/span><\/i>. Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1954.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Van Dover, J.K. \u201cThe Design of Anarchy: \u2018The Anarchiad\u2019, 1786-1787.\u201d <\/span>Early American Literature<\/span><\/i>, Vo. 24, No. 3 (1989): 237-247. https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/25056781<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Articles Van Dover, J.K. \u201cThe Design of Anarchy: \u2018The Anarchiad\u2019, 1786-1787.\u201d Early American Literature, Vo. 24, No. 3 (1989): 237-247. https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/25056781\u00a0 \u00a0 Digital Collections Anarchiad: a New England poem, 1786-1787 \/ Humphreys, Barlow, Trumbull and Hopkins [electronic text].” In the digital collection\u202fAmerican Verse Project.\u202fhttps:\/\/name.umdl.umich.edu\/BAD5699.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 10, 2025. “M’Fingal: … Continue reading The Hartford Wits – Biographical and Critical Sources<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":803,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}