Fitz-Greene Halleck Summary

Fitz-Greene Halleck (8 July 1790-19 December 1867), a Knickerbocker poet and man of letters, was born and died in Guilford, Connecticut. Halleck left Guilford at the age of twenty-one and entered into... Read more

A distinguished poet, novelist, essayist, journalist, short story writer, editor, and critic, Poe stressed an analytical, rather than emotive approach to literature and emphasized the specifics of sty... Read more

In the following excerpt, the reviewer comments on various poems in Halleck's 1836 collection, Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems, and discusses his transition from social satire to descriptive n... Read more

In the following excerpt from an article on Halleck originally published in 1846, Poe measures public estimation of Halleck against what he considers a truer representation of the poet's litera... Read more

The first American poet to achieve an international reputation, Bryant also contributed to the development of American letters in his role as editor of several literary magazines and of the New York E... Read more

An influential American literary critic during the last quarter of the nineteenth century, George Parsons Lathrop helped establish realism as the dominant mode of literary expression. In the following... Read more