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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790–1867)

Halleck, Fitz-Greene. An American poet; born in Guilford, CT, July 8, 1790; died there, Nov. 19, 1867. His best-known poems include: ‘Marco Bozzaris’ (1827), and ‘Fanny.’ He was joint author with Joseph Rodman Drake of the ‘Croaker’ papers, which appeared in a New York newspaper in 1819. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).