Fitz greene halleck poems about life
Poems about friendship!
Born in Connecticut in 1790, Fitz-Green Halleck was a poet and satirist who spent most of his life in New York and was often referred to as the American answer to Lord Byron. The son of a store owner and partially deaf following an accident in early childhood, he left school at the age of just fifteen and worked for a while in his father’s shop.
When he reached the age of 20, Halleck left home and headed to New York City, hoping to find work there.
Fitz greene halleck poems about life
Things proved to be difficult and after a couple of months he was preparing to leave when he was offered a job by banker and financier Jacob Barker who was the epitome of a self-made man. Halleck would work for Barker over the next 20 years.
At the same time, Halleck had made friends with fellow poet Joseph Rodman Drake and the two began to collaborate, writing satires on society in New York that they published under the pseudonym of Croaker.
Some thirty five poems were written and appeared in newspapers such as The Evening Standard ove