Fitz-Greene Halleck

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

Halleck worked for twenty years as an official in the Bank of Jacob Barker in New York in May 1811. In 1819 he co-authored with Joseph Rodman Drake the poet under the title The Croaker Papers, a series of satirical and humorous verse. In December of the same year he published the poem anonymously Fanny, in which he also satirical literature, fashion and politics commented on his time. After the early death of his friend Drake was born in 1820 in memory of him with Green Be the Turf Thee above one of his most important poems. In 1822 he traveled to Europe. The impressions of this trip were reflected from now reflected in his work.

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

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