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.
20 November 2009
FYI: In reference to "rakes"
"To associate, is to approve; to approve, is to be betrayed!"
:Hannah Webster Foster, Letter LXXIII, The Coquette (1797)
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