Poetry to Thrill an Oyster
Gregory Woods: Fitz-Greene Halleck, 16 November 2000
The American Byron: Homosexuality and the Fall of Fitz-Greene Halleck
by John W.M. Hallock.
Wisconsin, 226 pp., £14.95, April 2000,0 299 16804 2 Show More
by John W.M. Hallock.
Wisconsin, 226 pp., £14.95, April 2000,
“... as a mere imitator. Richard Dana thought his ‘Marco Bozzaris’ was America’s best lyric poem. John Quincy Adams referred to one of his poems in a speech to the House of Representatives in 1836. Most inexplicable of all, on 15 May 1877, fifty thousand people gathered in Central Park to see President Hayes unveil a statue of Halleck in the so-called ... ”
