Fitz-Greene Halleck

Fitz-Greene Halleck was born in 1790 in Guilford, Connecticut. Having come to New York in 1811, he worked for some twenty years for the banker Jacob Barker, then in 1832 entered the service of John Jacob Astor as private secretary; Astor named him among the first trustees of the library he founded. He belonged to the New York group of the Knickerbockers and published in 1819, with his friend Joseph Rodman Drake, a series of satires on city life; at Drake's death, in 1820, he devoted a poem of tribute to him. Having returned to Guilford in 1849, he died there in 1867.

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• PoetryMarco BozzarisFitz-Greene Halleck · 1825LiteraturePublic domain