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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... Bryant , Child , Drake , Halleck , Irving , James K. Paulding , and others , took its name from Irving's Knickerbock- er's History of New York ( 1809 ) . 34. Wilson , " Halleckiana . " 35. Halleck , Writings 313 . 36. In Wilson ...
... Bryant , " Writings " 1 ; Bryant , " Fitz - Greene Halleck " 522 . 49. In Adkins 232 ; in Wilson , Letters 351 . 50. Snelling 32 . 51. Halleck , Writings 332 . 52. In Adkins 228 . 53. In Wilson , Letters 262-63 . 54. Ibid . 345 . 55. In ...
... Bryant , William Cullen . " Writings of Fitz - Greene Halleck . " New York Mirror September 24 , 1836 : 1 . Bryant , William Cullen , and George Palmer Putnam . Memorial of James Feni- more Cooper . New York : G. P. Putnam , 1852 ...