Author: Halleck, Fitz-Greene
Biography:
Halleck, Fitz-Greene (1790-1867: WBIS)
Born in Guilford CT to Israel and Mary (Eliot) Hallock (sic), at fourteen he started work as a clerk in a store owned by a relative. In 1810 two of his poems appeared in the New York Columbian; in 1811, he moved to New York and was employed in a bank until 1828. His friendship with Joseph Rodman Drake (q.v.) led to a collaborative series of satirical verses published in the New York Evening Post and the National Advocate in 1819, in which they signed as "Croaker," "Croaker Jr.," and "Croaker and Co." Halleck visited Europe in 1822; Alnwick Castle was one of the results. Marco Bozzaris (1825, at three pages too short for this bibliography) became a popular recitation piece. He contributed a life of Byron to the six-volume edition of 1835. From 1832 to 1848 he was the confidential secretary of John Jacob Astor and then in 1849 he retired to Guilford. Collected editions of his verse began to appear in 1847. (ANBO 19 Feb. 2019; Appleton)