Timothy Dwight Encounters the Indians: Greenfield Hill and Travels through New York and New England

Authors

Ann Brunjes, Bridgewater State UniversityFollow

Abstract

Late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Americans, much like twenty-first-century Americans, had a hard time imagining how a heterogeneous, mobile and growing population could be brought under one ideological and governmental roof. And for many prominent Americans in the early days of the nation, the lingering issue of the “Indian problem” posed its own peculiar challenges. Timothy Dwight (1752–1817), author, President of Yale College, and minister of the town of Greenfield, Connecticut. Dwight voiced his concerns through a variety of genres, including the pastoral-epic poem, Greenfield Hill (1794), and Travels in New England and New York (1822).

Note on the Author

Ann Brunjes is Director of the Office of Teaching and Learning and Visiting Associate Professor of English.

Recommended Citation

Brunjes, Ann (2010). Timothy Dwight Encounters the Indians: Greenfield Hill and Travels through New York and New England. Bridgewater Review, 29(1), 4-6.
Available at: https://vc.bridgew.edu/br_rev/vol29/iss1/6