TIMOTHY DWIGHT BIOGRAPHY
TIMOTHY DWIGHT BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
DWIGHT, TIMOTHY (1752-1817). —Theologian and poet, born at Northampton, Mass., was a grandson of Jonathan Edwards, became a Congregationalist minister, Prof. of Divinity, and latterly Pres. of Yale. His works include, besides theological treatises and sermons, the following poems, America (1772), The Conquest of Canaan (1785), and The Triumph of Infidelity , a satire, admired in their day, but now unreadable.