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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... become his trademark accessory . In fact , he had told a friend who had helped to plan the statue that " the likeness would not strike " without the umbrella and that he hoped another ad- mirer of his work had obtained " a sculptor ...
... become formally conceptualized until late in the century . Given this historical framework , then , one must ask : What's a gay man like Halleck doing in the nineteenth century ? The rhetorical question is threefold . As a colloquial ...
... become the homosexual experiences of choice . Since most of the recorded male - male acts of colo- nial America and early Federalism are court cases for nonconsensual sod- omy or male rape between men of significant economic or age ...
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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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