The American Byron: Homosexuality and the Fall of Fitz-Greene HalleckHailed in the mid-nineteenth century as the most important American poet of the period, Fitz-Greene Halleck was a close friend of William C. Bryant, an associate of Charles Dickens and Washington Irving, and a celebrity sought out by John Jacob Astor and American presidents. Halleck, an attractive man of wit and charm, was dubbed "the American Byron" because he both employed similar poetic strategies and challenged the most sacred institutions of his day. A large general readership enjoyed his verse, though it was infused with homosexual themes. Indeed, Halleck's love for another man would be fictionalized in Bayard Taylor's novel Joseph and His Friend a century before the Stonewall riots. |
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... Connecticut . Several thousand people had arrived by special trains from New Haven on the anniversary of his birthday.11 A two- thousand - dollar , eighteen - foot obelisk , surrounded by clippings of the Melrose Abbey ivy given to ...
... Connecticut " ( a deconstruction of Puritan tyranny ) , " Red Jacket " ( a sarcastic tribute to the Native American ) , and " Wyoming " ( a satire of Thomas Campbell's " Gertrude " ) . His 1822 European tour was patterned on Drake's ...
... Connecticut " in 1852 . A bitter denunciation of American Puritanism , the poem provided a sharp contrast to the pleasant transcendental meandering of its 1826 version . The inherent irony of civil war was not lost on Halleck , whose ...
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Contents
Shepherds of Sodomy | 17 |
Love and War | 42 |
The Widow Halleck | 67 |
Conquer and Divide | 92 |
A Return to Ganymede | 121 |
Halleck and His Friend | 151 |
Notes | 177 |
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