Lemuel Hopkins

Hopkins was a member of the Hartford Wits, a group of literary satirists active in the late eighteenth century. A politically conservative Federalist, he coauthored The Anarchiad (1786–1787), a lengthy satiric poem critical of popular democracy and of the Articles of Confederation. His fellow authors on the poem were three other leading Wits: David Humphreys, Joel Barlow, and John Trumbull. Hopkins practiced medicine in Litchfield and Hartford and received an honorary Master of Arts degree from Yale University in 1784.^[1][2]

Hopkins died of pneumonia^[2] and was interred at Hartford's Ancient Burying Ground.^[3]

• The Anarchiad: A New England Poem - full text via the Internet Archive

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