...the last two decades of the eighteenth century formed a literary centre at New Haven and Hartford. The chief Hartford Wits were Timothy Dwight, John Trumbull, Joel Barlow, David Humphreys, Richard Alsop , Lemuel Hopkins, and Theodore Dwight, a brother of Timothy, all either graduates of Yale or associated with that college. Their contemporary reputation was immense. Dwight, Barlow, and Humphreys,...