Legacy
Dwight's 1785 poem The Conquest of Canaan is considered to be the first American epic poem.
In the twentieth century, Yale named Timothy Dwight College for him and his grandson.
In 2008, The Library of America selected Dwight's account of the murders of Connecticut shopkeeper William Beadle for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American True Crime.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)