The American Byron

The American Byron

Author: John W. M. Hallock

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780299168049

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Hailed in the mid-19th century as the most important American poet of the period, Fitz-Greene Halleck was dubbed the American Byron and had a large general readership despite his work's infusion of homosexual themes. This biography portrays him as a prophet of the literary and sexual revolution.