Poetical Works

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By Listen TheBook Posted on Jun 1, 2023

In Category - Lyric

Authors: Fitz-Greene Halleck In Year : 1855

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Poetical Works

Alnwick Castle
Marco Bozzaris
Burns
Wyoming
On the death of Joseph Rodman Drake
Twilight
Psalm CXXXII
To *****
The field of the Grounded Arms
Red Jacket
Love
A Sketch
Domestic Happiness
Magdalen
From the Italian
Translation from the German of Goethe
Woman
A Poet's Daughter
Connecticut
Music
On the Death of Lieut. Allen
Fanny v. 1-24
Fanny v. 25-45
Fanny v. 46-78
Song
Fanny v. 79-103
To The Horseboat
Fanny v. 104-141
Fanny v. 142-175
Song
The Recorder
To Walter Bowne Esq.
To ****
A Fragment
Song, by Miss ***
Song, for the Drama of a Spy
Address at the Opening of a New Theatre
The Rhyme of the Ancient Coaster
Lines to her who can understand them
Extract from an unpublished Poem

Fitz-Greene Halleck was born in the old Connecticut coastal town of Guildford. At age 21 he moved to New York where he worked for nearly 4 decades in the financial world. In 1819 his long satirical poem Fanny was published. In 1820 the death of his close friend Joseph Rodman Drake led to him writing perhaps his best known poem as a tribute. A visit to Europe at age 32 broadened his cultural horizons and led to the writing of poems like Marco Bozzaris, Burns and Alnwick Castle. In 1849, with a small annuity from John Jacob Astor, he retired to his home town to live with his sister. Long years of quiet studious retirement produced the poem Connecticut showing his affection for his home state. He died at Guildford in 1867. After his death a statue of him was erected in Central Park in New York.
Halleck is widely regarded as one of the earliest major American poets and his best poems have regularly appeared in anthologies of American Poetry.
(Summary by Alan Mapstone)