The Connecticut (or Hartford or Wicked) Wits were a group of late-18th-century poets who first attempted to write a distinctly American literature. THEY FAILED.
28 November 2009
From Charles Brockden Brown's WIELAND, or The Transformation (An American Tale), 1798
"[Pleyel] urged, that ... to make the picture of a single family a model from which to sketch the condition of a nation, was absurd."
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