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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... hand the name of Fitz - Greene Halleck . " 18 His radical fall from fame demonstrates the politics of decanonization , just as his decanoniza- tion negates his significant contributions to American verse and sexual ideology . Halleck's ...
... hand man . Astor named him an original trustee of the Astor Li- brary , but Halleck was cheated of a large pension at the time of the mil- lionaire's death in 1842 , in spite of Samuel F. B. Morse's canvas of Halleck that still decks ...
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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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