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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... moral- ity than the French , above all , with respect to homosexuality ” and saw the growing tolerance of sodomy in Italy and France as proof of Protes- tantism's superior morality . " In fact , France had decriminalized homosex- ual ...
... moral map remained intact two hundred years later when Byron recommended Turkish baths for their " sherbert and sod- omy . " 103 Of Britain's carnal exiles , Byron and Shelley chose Italy , whereas Wilde found France especially ...
... Moral Picture " attacked political criticisms of public art . Coleman had refused Drake's “ Declaration of In- dependence " because it was too personal an attack on a national figure , yet Coleman printed Drake's next two submissions ...