biography
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| lived:
| (1752–1817)
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| biography:
| Educator, Congregational minister, and poet, born in Northampton, Massachusetts, USA. The grandson of Jonathan Edwards, he studied at Yale (1766–69), was a tutor there (1771–7), and was chaplain for the Connecticut Brigade during the American Revolution (1777–9). A member of the Massachusetts Legislature (1781–2), he served as a Congregational minister (1783–95), then became president of Yale (1795–1817). He was a conservative Federalist and Calvinist, and his verse is noted for its early use of American settings and its scorn of contemporaries' behaviour, which he regarded as indicative of a decline in values. |
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