Repository: UIHistories Project: Sophograph - 1890 [PAGE 51]

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Fitz Green Hallack,

N the fifteenth day of May, L877, there w anfeiled in Central Park, New York, a monument to th memory of an American poet. As no column has 1 n raised to testify to the people* ippr iation of Poe, Irvii Hawthorne or Cooper, it is fitting that we Bhould inquir why Fitz Gr it 11 allack, a poet whose career wa who wa i little praised, who produced BO few g I poems. < is thus honored. Pitz Green Hal lack > born in a small town in i i\ ticut, July 8, L705. In bis youth he moved to New York city, wher ifter en ging in various her ations, he I), one I ik-keeper in Istor'a large i blishment. &stor in hi will bequeathed Hallack an annuity of £200, upon which be retired from active life. Be died No\. 19, lv While in N.-w fork he became acquainted with Drake, with whom he formed a literary partnership. 1 irp .signed ( "Croaker ^ v ." contain much satire on the fashions f tl

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