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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... feelings for Drake , who was nicknamed the American Keats . ( Indeed , Drake and Keats had their birth year , age of death , study of medicine , and fatal consumption in common . ) Soon after the burial , Halleck's spoofs on marriage ...
... feelings of love , Halleck simultaneously denied that he could be " in " love with a man . Though shrouded by a century of neglect , Halleck's writing reveals more than an anomaly that contradicts historical assumptions about sex and ...
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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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