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HALLECK , FITZ-See also:GREENE (1790-1867), See also:American poet, was See also:born at See also:Guilford, See also:Connecticut, on the 8th of See also:July 1790. By his See also:mother he was descended from See also:John See also:Eliot, the " Apostle to the See also:Indians." At an See also:early See also:age he became clerk in a See also:store at Guilford, and in 1811 he entered a banking-See also:house in New See also:York. Raving made the acquaintance of See also:Joseph Rodman See also:Drake, in 1819 he assisted him under the See also:signature of "Croaker junior" in contributing to the New York Evening See also:Post the humorous See also:series of " Croaker Papers." In 1821 he published his longest poem, Fanny, a See also:satire on See also:local politics and fashions in the measure of See also:Byron's See also:Don Juan. He visited See also:Europe in 1822-1823, and after his return published anonymously in 1827 See also:Alnwick See also:Castle, with other Poems. From 1832 to 1841 he was confidential See also:agent of John See also:Jacob See also:Astor, who named him one of the trustees of the Astor library. In 1864 he published in the New York See also:Ledger a poem of 300 lines entitled " See also:Young See also:America." He died at Guilford, on the 19th of See also:November 1867. The poems of Halleck are written with See also:great care and finish, and See also:manifest the See also:possession of a See also:fine sense of See also:harmony and of genial and elevated sentiments.
His See also:Life and Letters, by See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
Wilson, appeared in 1869. His Poetical Writings, together with extracts from those of Joseph Rodman Drake, were edited by Wilson in the same See also:year.
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