TIMOTHY DWIGHT

under author pages, Timothy Dwight, it divides it into 4 authors

https://www.librarything.com/author/dwighttimothy&all=1

these works are all the same gentleman as far as I can tell. He was the grandson to Johnathan Edwards; belonged to a group called the Hartford Wits; studied some law but became a minister; Revolutionary War; Conquest of Canaan an Epic; Psalms/hymns/ poems; lots of other stuff

If you are trying to make a previously split author back into a single author, I believe that is a known long standing bug:
https://www.librarything.com/topic/324596

The disambiguation notice says that one of them is the grandson of another so I don't think they are all the same person.

>2 gilroy: I don't know if the author had been previously unified.

also, i have worked very little with author combining.

>3 norabelle414: ok- so, #3 could be his grandson; #2- don't know for certain, as i don't know if he compiled british orators; but definitely #'s 1 &4

There isn't a 4, just books that haven't been assigned to one of the other three.

>6 Aquila: yes, well i didn't know what to call it. definitely, a 4th grouping

>7 EGBERTINA: These are the books waiting to be assigned to one of the 3 authors in the split (or if they don’t belong to any of them, more can be added to the 3. It is normal that most of the books in there belong to one of the existing splits - someone needs to assign them manually so they appear under the correct split.

>8 AnnieMod: How is that done?

>9 EGBERTINA: Look on the Right side of the screen. See where it says Author divisions? Read the short paragraph under that heading. There is a link at the end of this paragraph. When you click it, it opens the page in a different way, allowing you to assign books to numbers. (Or numbers to books - depends on how you look at it). The numbers are the same you see in brackets on the main page.

That’s pretty much it. Please assign books to the split only if you are sure the book belongs to them - oclc or LCCn are often a good way to verify which books belong together. For more popular authors, Wikipedia and for modern ones their home pages also help in this.

link?

ok. i think i got them sorted. two are left called classics (?)something. my guess that he would be contributor-and that it is a type of compilation.

at the turn of the last century - dwight would have been considered a well known and crucial poet to american literature. even though, he is dropped out, by our day.

>12 EGBERTINA: Combining is not an exact science :-) Sometimes even getting hold of the physical books doesn't help. I.e. when the only author information is the name.