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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... called " the fa- vored of all the early American poets . " 3 While favorable portraits of Hal- leck had been painted by America's leading artists ( including Brown , Elliott , Hicks , Inman , Jarvis , Morse , Rogers , and Waldo ) , the ...
... called out , " and despite recent appearances in popular magazines , he remains thoroughly unsung . Further , the reasons for his anonymity today are themselves obscure . Nineteenth - century American readers would be perplexed by the ...
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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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