{{short description|American poet and physician}} {{Infobox writer | name = Lemuel Hopkins | image = John Trumbull - Dr. Lemuel Hopkins (1750-1801), M.A. (Hon.) 1784 - 1914.1 - Yale University Art Gallery.jpg | birth_date = {{birth date|1750|06|19}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1801|04|14|1750|06|19}} | birth_place = Waterbury, Connecticut, British America | death_place = Hartford, Connecticut, US | resting_place = Ancient Burying Ground | occupation = Poet, physician | movement = Hartford Wits | language = English | genre = Satire }}
'''Lemuel Hopkins''' (June 19, 1750 – April 14, 1801) was an American poet and physician.
== Biography == 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.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Van Dover|first=J. K.|date=1999|title=Hopkins, Lemuel (1750-1801), physician and poet|url=https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1600788|access-date=2022-01-10|website=American National Biography|language=en|doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1600788|isbn=978-0-19-860669-7 }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Dr. Lemuel Hopkins (1750–1801), M.A. (Hon.) 1784|url=https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/2362|access-date=2022-01-10|website=Yale University Art Gallery}}</ref>
=== Death === Hopkins died of pneumonia<ref name=":0" /> and was interred at Hartford's Ancient Burying Ground.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Burial List|url=http://theancientburyingground.org/history/burial-list/|access-date=2022-01-10|website=Hartford’s Ancient Burying Ground|language=en-US}}</ref>
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links ==
* ''The Anarchiad: A New England Poem'' - full text via the Internet Archive
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