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xii, 461 pages : 25 cm "A book distinguished for monumental industry, for scholarly honesty and precision, and for comprehensiveness and judicial insight. New and authentic evidence appears in the form of some fifty-odd letters printed for the first time. Mr. Adkins has exhaustively ransacked every contemporary newspaper and magazine for the authentic colors which have enabled him to paint a three-dimensional portrait of Halleck, his spirited contemporaries, their reading public, and their interrelations." H.H. Clark in Bookman (November 1930) Includes bibliographical references (pages 376-384) and index commitment to retain 20151204 Ancestry -- Early life in Guilford (1790-1810) -- First years in New York (1811-18) -- The Croakers (1819) -- Fanny (1819) -- The death of Drake, and a trip abroad (1820-22) -- Marco Bozzaris and other poetry (1823-26) -- The man of letters (1827) -- Fame as a poet (1828-32) -- The man of society (1832-40) -- Last years in New York (1841-48) -- Retirement in Guilford (1849-67) -- Monument and statue -- Appendices : Bibliographies ; List of Halleck portraits and engravings ; Uncollected letters of Fitz-Greene Halleck ; Uncollected poems of Fitz-Greene H

Author

Nelson Frederick Adkins

Publisher

New Haven: Yale University Press

Published

1930

Language

EN

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities