Halleck, Fitz-Greene
Halleck, Fitz-Greene( 1790–1867),born in Connecticut, was a leading member of the Knickerbocker Group and co-author with J. R. Drake of the “Croaker Papers” (1819), which catapulted him to fame. In the same year he published his long poem Fanny, a satire of New York society, imitating Byron's Beppo and Don Juan, which was so popular that he added 50 stanzas to it two years later. He visited Europe (1822) and there wrote the poem Alnwick Castle, in which he attempted to combine the sentimental romance of Scott with Byron's sophisticated satire. Three years later he published Marco Bozzaris, a stirring poem about the heroic fighter against the Turks in the Greek struggle for freedom, which again exhibits his debt to Byron. After the publication of Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems (1827), Halleck did little writing, but his collected Works appeared in 1847. Among his best-known short poems...
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