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(1795-1820) Poet, satirist. Joseph Rodman Drake was born in New York City, and buried in Drake Park at Hunts Point and Oak Point Avenues in the Bronx, New York. Under the name “The Croakers,” he and his friend Fitz-Greene Halleck wrote a series of light satirical verses for the New York Evening Post (1819, first complete ed. 1860). Drake’s longest serious poem is “The Culprit Fay” (in his only book of verse, “The Culprit Fay and Other Poems” (1835)); his poem “The American Flag” was long a standard patriotic declamation. Halleck’s elegy beginning, “Green be the turf above thee,” was written upon Drake’s death.
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Joseph Rodman Drake
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New York
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