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Fitz-Greene Halleck complained that he was feeling unwell and a physician was called. He went to bed early on November 19, 1867, a Tuesday ...

Today, it's hard to believe just how much of a celebrity Fitz-Greene Halleck had become thanks to his poetry . With that popularity ...

Avaunt, arch enemy of fun, Grim nightmare of the mind! Which way, great Momus, shall I run, A refuge safe to find? My puppy's dead; ...

The poet Fitz-Greene Halleck died at the age of 77 of a "bronchial disease." Though virtually forgotten today, Halleck was a m...

From the Evening Post for November 18, 1830: "Several inquires having been made of us respecting the name of the author of an ' Ep...

On May 29, 1819, the poet Joseph Rodman Drake saw his most famous poem published, "The American Flag." It was printed in the Ne...

Fitz-Greene Halleck became a household name as a poet in the nineteenth century. In fact, his reputation was so strong that, immediately ...