Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . markable intelligence. iniTZ-G^REElSrE HALLECK. THE author of Marco Bozzaris (the best known of his poems1 among the people) cannot rank with the great American poets, butho is a conspicuous figure among the minor poets of the republic. Hewas born at Guilford, Conn., July 8, 1790, and was a lineal descend-ant of John Eliot, the Apostle to the Indians. In his nativetown he received a good academic education, and at the age oftwenty-one he entered th
Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . markable intelligence. iniTZ-G^REElSrE HALLECK. THE author of Marco Bozzaris (the best known of his poems1 among the people) cannot rank with the great American poets, butho is a conspicuous figure among the minor poets of the republic. Hewas born at Guilford, Conn., July 8, 1790, and was a lineal descend-ant of John Eliot, the Apostle to the Indians. In his nativetown he received a good academic education, and at the age oftwenty-one he entered the service of Jacob Barker, a banker in NewYork. Afterwards he became bookkeeper m John Jacob Astorsprivate office, and was associated with him in his business affairs asconfidential clerk about sixteen years. Mr. Halleck began to write verses in his boyhood, but his firstpoem, in the collected edition to Twilight, appeared in tlie NewYork Evening Post m 1819. The next year he formed a literarypartnership with Joseph Rodman Drake, m the production of theOrodker papers—poetical squibs—published in the Evening Post; FITZ-GREENE HALLECK. 451. and in the same year appeared his Fanny, a satire on the fashions,follies, and public characters of the day. It was his longest poem,Drake died in 1820, and Halleck commemorated the event in atouching poem, in which appeared the often quoted lines— Green be the turf above thee,Friend of my better days!None knew thee but to love thee,None named thee but to praise. A second and enlarged edition of Fanny appeared in 1821. Theoriginal was written in the space of three weeks from its commence-ment and was very popular. Mr. Halleck made a tour in Europe in1822-23, and in 1827 he published a collection of his poems, anony-mously, in which were embodied his AlniDick Castle and Burns,which had been inspired by a visit to the home of the Scotch had first appeared in the New York Review and United StatesReview, edited by Mr. Bryant. His M
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