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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... wrote that a passage of " Alnwick Castle " was " the noblest to be found in Halleck , and I would be at a loss to discover its parallel in all American poetry . " 15 While the National Magazine noted that this critique was a rare ...
... wrote that Hawthorne had " dropped germinous seeds into my soul " and had " shot his strong New England roots into the hot soil of my soul . " Was his review expressing genteel love or did he just want to get plowed ? Did he even know ...
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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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