Fitz-Greene Halleck

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Statue in honor of Halleck in Central Park , New York

Fitz-Greene Halleck (born July 8, 1790 in Guilford , Connecticut , † November 19, 1867 ibid) was an American poet. He was considered one of the leading writers in the United States between 1830 and 1860.

Life

From May 1811, Halleck worked for twenty years as a civil servant in Jacob Barker's bank in New York . In 1819 he wrote a series of satirical and humorous verses together with the poet Joseph Rodman Drake under the title The Croaker Papers . In December of the same year he anonymously published the poem Fanny , in which he also satirically commented on the literature, fashion and politics of his time. After the early death of his friend Drake, one of his most important poems was written in 1820 in memory of him, Green Be the Turf above Thee . In 1822 he traveled to Europe. The impressions of this trip were reflected in his work from then on.

In 1832, Halleck became Johann Jakob Astor's private secretary and was appointed one of the curators of the Astor Library by him. In 1849 he left this post and returned to his birthplace for his retirement, where he died in the fall of 1867.

Almost ten years after his death, a bronze monument by the sculptor James Wilson Alexander MacDonald was erected in his memory in New York's Central Park and was ceremoniously unveiled on May 15, 1877 in the presence of President Rutherford B. Hayes .

literature

  • Nelson F. Adkins : Fitz-Greene Halleck: An Early Knickerbocker Wit and Poet . Yale University Press, New Haven CT 1930.
  • John W. Hallock: The American Byron: Homosexuality and the Fall of Fitz-Greene Halleck . University of Wisconsin Press, Madison 1999. ISBN 0-299-16800-X
  • James Grant Wilson: The Life and Letters of Fitz-Greene Halleck . D. Appleton and Co., New York 1869, archive.org .
  • Halleck, Fitz-Greene . In: James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (Eds.): Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . tape 3 : Grinnell - Lockwood . D. Appleton and Company, New York 1887, p. 46 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).

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SURNAME Halleck, Fitz-Greene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poet
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Guilford , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1867
Place of death Guilford , Connecticut