Poetry and Public Life

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 17.03.06

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Objectives
  4. The Hartford Wits
  5. Strategies
  6. Class Activities
  7. Resources
  8. Notes
  9. Appendix—Implementing District Standards

Poetry in Notion: The Hartford Wits and the Emergence of an American Identity

Michael McClellan

Published September 2017

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Notes

  1. Howard, Leon. The Connecticut Wits, ix.
  2. Castillero Middle School. https://www.greatschools.org/california/san-jose/5656-Castillero-Middle-School/
  3. Wood, Gordon S. The Radicalism of the American Revolution, 3.
  4. Dame, Frederick William. America’s Indomitable Character Volume II: From the Height of Colonialism to Revolution, 206.
  5. Piascik, Andy. The Connecticut Wits. https://connecticuthistory.org/the-hartford-wits/.
  6. Howard, Leon. vii.
  7. Beers, Henry A. “The Connecticut Wits” in The Connecticut Wits and Other Essays, 2.
  8. Tise, Larry E. “Yale College and World Revolution” in The American Counterrevolution: A Retreat from Liberty 1783 – 1800, 131.
  9. Parrington, Vernon L. “Introduction” in The Connecticut Wits, xli.
  10. Marble, Annie Russell. “John Trumbull: Satirist and Scholar” in Heralds of American Literature; A Group of Patriot Writers of the Revolutionary and National Periods, 125.
  11. Lehman, Eric D. and Nawrocki, Amy. “The Revolution of the Hartford Wits” in Literary Connecticut: The Hartford Wits, Mark Twain and the New Millennium, 20.
  12. Howard, Leon. 133.
  13. Parrington, Vernon. xxiii.
  14. Beers, Henry. 2.
  15. Brown, Irving. “The Hartford Wits” in The Cambridge Modern History, Volume 7”, 741.
  16. Goetzmann, William H. “The Writer and the Republic” in Beyond the Revolution: A History of American Thought from Paine to Pragmatism, 141.
  17. Lehman, and Nawrocki, 19.  
  18. Ibid., 24.
  19. Fry, Paul H., “Poetry Makes Nothing Happen (Auden): What Does That Mean and Why?”
  20. Marble, Annie. 4.
  21. Lehman, and Nawrocki, 24-25.
  22. Fry, Paul H., in discussion with the author, July 12, 2017.
  23. Parrington, Vernon. xxxxviii-xxxix.  
  24. Beers, Henry. 1.
  25. Hattem, Michael D. "Past and Prologue: History Culture and the American Revolution", 302.
  26. Ibid., 316
  27. Lehman, Eric D. Holes in the Canon: The Hartford Wits and Literary History.
  28. Conger, Danielle E. "Toward a Native American Nationalism: Joel Barlow's The Vision of Columbus." 562.
  29. Parrington, Vernon. xv.
  30. Ibid., p. xvi.
  31. Courtney, Steven, “Hartford Wits – Or Were They?”. Hartford Courant, August 4, 2002.
  32. Hattem, Michael D. in discussion with the author, July 18, 2017.
  33. Pencak, William; et al. “Riot and Revelry in Early America”, 214-16
  34. Barlow, Joel, “The Vision of Columbus; a Poem in Nine Books.”. Evans Early American Collection.
  35. Conger, Danielle. 570.
  36. Hattem, Michael D. in discussion with the author, July 18, 2017.
  37. Conger, Danielle. 562.
  38. Howard, Leon. 123.
  39. Humphreys, David. “Mount Vernon: An Ode” in The Miscellaneous Works of Colonel Humphreys, 68.
  40. Howard, Leon. 120.
  41. Humphreys, David. 29.
  42. Lehman, Eric and Nawrocki, Amy. 23.
  43. Marble, Annie. 176-77.
  44. Beers, Henry. 7.
  45. Howard, Leon. 25.
  46. Ibid., 52.
  47. Ibid., 61.
  48. Marble, Annie. 2.
  49. Parrington, Vernon. l-li.
  50. Marble, Annie. 129-30.
  51. Parrington, Vernon. 55-56.
  52. Howard, Leon. 70.
  53. Beers, Henry. 3.
  54. Sheldon, F. “The Pleiades of Connecticut” in The Atlantic Monthly. F. Sheldon, February 1885 p. 190-91.
  55. Tise, Larry. 378 – 79.
  56. Maier, Pauline. “Take This or Nothing” in Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788, 104.
  57. Ellis, Joseph J. “The Articles and the Vision” in The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783 – 1789, 27.
  58. Parrington, Vernon. xli.
  59. ushistory.org. “Shays' Rebellion” in U.S. History Online Textbook,
  60. Ellis, Joseph. 24.
  61. Ibid., 53.
  62. Ibid., 103 & 118.
  63. Bowen, Catheine Drinker. Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention May to September 1787, 183-84.
  64. Maier, Pauline. 51.
  65. Lehman, Eric and Nawrocki, Amy. 25.
  66. Sheldon, F. 190-91.
  67. Parrington, Vernon. 430.
  68. Ibid., p. 462
  69. Marble, Annie. 188.
  70. Humphreys, David. 279.
  71. Ellis, Joseph. 11.
  72. Lehman, Eric and Nawrocki, Amy. 25.
  73. Ibid.
  74. Ibid.
  75. Lehman, Eric and Nawrocki,, Amy.30 & 37.
  76. Marble, Annie. 9.
  77. Lehman, Eric.
  78. Lehman, Eric. and Nawrocki, Amy. 25.
  79. Marble, Annie. 15.
  80. California Department of Education, California Common Core State Standards English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects, 92.

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