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Timothy Dwight

1752–1817

Timothy Dwight (1752–1817) was an American Congregational minister, educator and poet, born in Northampton, Massachusetts. A member of the Connecticut Wits, he was president of Yale College from 1795 until his death.

Griswold included 10 of his poems in The Poets and Poetry of America (16th edition, Philadelphia: Parry & McMillan, 1855), the anthology from which the poems here are taken.

Major Works (1)

  1. Greenfield Hill — Descriptive poem, 1794

Poems (13)

  1. An Indian Temple
  2. England and America
  3. The Social Visit
  4. The Country Pastor
  5. The Country Schoolmaster
  6. The Battle of Ai
  7. The Lamentation of Selima
  8. Prediction to Joshua Relative to America
  9. Evening After a Battle
  10. Columbia
  11. The Assault on the Fortress
  12. To the Federal Convention
  13. Love to the Church

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