Alsop, Richard

Alsop, Richard ôl´səp , 1761–1815, American author, b. Middletown, Conn. Best remembered as one of the Connecticut Wits , he collaborated with Theodore Dwight and others in writing light satiric verse for the Political Greenhouse and the Echo.

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