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HighBeam Encyclopedia - Halleck, Fitz-Greene (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | Guilford, Conn. He was joint author, with Joseph Rodman Drake, of the humorous lampoons "Croaker Papers," most of which were printed in the New York Evening Post in 1819. |
 | | In the same year he published his long satire, Fanny (1819), in the style of Byron's Beppo. |
 | | His poem "Marco Bozzaris," popular as a recitation, and his "Green Be the Turf above Thee," an elegy on the death of Drake, were the best known of Halleck's graceful verses. |
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