Timothy Dwight (1752-1817)

Berk, Stephen F. Calvinism Versus Democracy; Timothy Dwight and the Origins of Amer­ican Evangelical Orthodoxy. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1974. Based on a University of Iowa dissertation (1974), this is a sound, scholarly study with full apparatus. "Timothy Dwight, a latter day Puritan minister and educator, was a major architect of post-Revolutionary American conservatism." (p. viii) He devised new means of preserving old New England institutions and epitomized the Calvinist mind.

Cunningham, Charles Edgar. Timothy Dwight, 1752-1817, A Biography. New York: Macmillan, 1942. A scholarly, reliable work, with an extensive bibliography and an essay on manuscript sources. Fair index.

Leary, Lewis. "The Author of' The Triumph of Infidelity.'" New England Quarterly 20(September, 1947)3:377-85. Customarily attributed to Dwight. Cunnin­gham had dismissed the attribution. Leary insists it was written by Dwight.

Ravitz, Abe C. "Timothy Dwight's Decisions." New England Quarterly 31 (De­cember, 1958)4:514-20. An interesting piece on Dwight's political and moral views.

Silverman, Kenneth. Timothy Dwight. New York: Twayne, 1969. One of the short accounts in the Twayne biographical series.

Tyler, Moses Coit. Three Men of Letters. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1895. A narrative biography with heavy emphasis on Dwight's writings. The other two men are Joel Barlow and George Berkeley.