Fitz-Greene Halleck - Publications

Poet, born in Guilford, Connecticut, USA. He was educated in public schools, and became a store clerk (1806–11), bank clerk (1812–30), and personal secretary to John Jacob Astor (1832–49) in New York. He was noted for his satirical verse, such as Fanny (1819), but is now best known for his historical poems such as ‘Marco Bozzaris’.

Fitz-Greene Halleck
Born	1790 Guilford, Connecticut, USA
Died	1867

Fitz-Greene Halleck (July 8, 1790 – November 19, 1867) was an American poet, born and died at Guilford, Connecticut. He wrote, with Joseph Rodman Drake, a young poet who died at 25, and with whom he may have been in love, The Croaker Papers, a series of satirical and humorous verses, and Fanny, his longest poem, also a satire on the literature, fashions, and politics of the time, published anonymously, December, 1819.

Halleck commemorated his friend's death in the most beautiful and best known of his poems, beginning "Green is the turf above thee" (1820).

In May, 1811, he became a clerk in the New York bank of Jacob Barker, where he remained for 20 years. On May 15, 1832, Halleck became the private secretary to John Jacob Astor and was appointed by him one of the original trustees of the Astor Library of New York.

In 1877 a statue to him was erected, the first to commemorate an American poet.

Publications

Wilson, The Life and Letters of Fitz-Greene Halleck (New York, 1869) Wilson, The Poetical Writings of Fitz-Greene Halleck {New York, 1869) Hallock, John Wesley Matthew.