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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Halleck , Fitz-greene 1790 -1867 (search)
Halleck, Fitz-greene 1790-1867
Poet; born in Guilford, Conn., July 8, 1790; became a clerk in the banking-house of Jacob Barker at the age of eighteen years; and was long a confidential clerk with John Jacob Astor, who made him one of the first trustees of the Astor Library.
From early boyhood he wrote verses.
With Joseph Rodman Drake, he wrote the humorous series known as The Croker papers for the Evening post in 1819.
His longest poem, Fanny, a satire upon the literature and politics of the times, was published in 1821.
The next year he went to Europe, and in 1827 his Alnwick Castle, Marco Bozzaris, and other poems were published in a volume.
Halleck was a genuine poet, but he wrote comparatively little.
His pieces of importance are only thirty-two in number, and altogether
Fitz-Greene Halleck. comprise only about 4,000 lines.
Yet he wrote with great facility.
His Fanny, in the measure of Byron's Don Juan, was completed and printed within three weeks after it was begu
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 5 : Bryant and the minor poets (search)
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index. (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 4 : the New York period (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, A Glossary of Important Contributors to American Literature (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, chapter 13 (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Index. (search)