HALLECK, FITZ-GREENE (1790-1867), American poet, was born at Guilford (Conn.), July 8, 1790, and died there Nov. Ig, 1867. In collaboration with Joseph Rodman Drake, he contributed the "Croaker Papers" to the New York Evening Post in 1819, and on the death of his friend he wrote the beautiful tribute beginning "Green be the turf above thee." This poem, the title poem of Alnwick Castle (1827), "Burns," and the schoolboy favourite "Marco Bozzaris" mark him as a poet of slight but genuine gift.
His Life and Letters by J. G. Wilson appeared in 186q. His Poetical Writings were edited by Wilson in the same year.