Fitz-Greene Halleck

Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790–1867) was an American poet associated with New York’s Knickerbocker literary circle. Born in Guilford, Connecticut, he moved to New York City as a young man and worked for many years as a clerk and bookkeeper, writing poetry alongside his business career. He gained wide popularity for patriotic and martial verse, most notably “Marco Bozzaris” (1825), and for reflective travel-inspired poems such as “Alnwick Castle.” Halleck also collaborated with Joseph Rodman Drake on the satirical “Croaker” poems. In later life he retired to Connecticut, where he died in 1867.