Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Fitz-Greene Halleck” in chapter 12 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature:
... Born in New York City, Aug. 7, 1795.
Left an orphan, he suffered the hardships of poverty and after a brief business career, studied medicine.
At fourteen he wrote the poem .
In 1819, he, with Fitz-Greene Halleck , contributed to the N. Y. a series of humorous verses called .
His fame chiefly rests on his poem , written in 1816. was published in 1836.
He died of consumption in New York City, Sept. 21, 18...
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