The American Byron: Homosexuality and the Fall of Fitz-Greene HalleckUniv of Wisconsin Press, 2000 - 226 Seiten Hailed 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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... praise showered upon him that day . Even so , the fine weather and smooth collaboration of the elite could not pre- vent controversy from overshadowing the auspicious occasion commemo- rating America's earliest homosexual poet , Fitz ...
... rare example of " when Poe did praise anything , " by 1843 Poe had concluded , " No name in the American poetical world is more firmly established than that of Fitz- Greene Halleck . " 16 Twenty - six years later 5 Introduction.
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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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