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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... Leaves of Grass de- cades later . Halleck's entirely unrhymed poem " greatly puzzled the re- viewers , " 21 and a critical debate ensued in which his personal character came under attack . Halleck found his inheritance of the Byronic ...
... leaf of archival material rediscovered , I am more convinced that we have failed to excavate enough material on past consensual homosexuality to espouse many theories about it . Nineteenth- century scholars have particularly narrowed ...
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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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