of the nineteenth century. Legacy In 1869, the collected Poetical Writings and a traditional Life and Letters, both edited and written by James Grant Wilson, were published. Also in 1869, a granite monument was erected to Halleck in Guilford, the first to memorialize an American poet. The writer Bayard Taylor spoke at the commemoration. Taylor wrote America's first homosexual novel, Joseph and His Friend (1870), believed to be a fictional account of the relationship between Halleck and Drake. In 1877 the memorial statue of Halleck was erected in New York's Central Park; Halleck is the only American writer on the Literary Walk. It was dedicated by President Rutherford B. Hayes, with 10,000 people attending. After that, requirements for memorial statues in the park became more stringent. In 2006 the Fitz-Greene Halleck Society was founded to raise awareness of him and his work. Works Croaker Papers (1819), complete edition, 1860<ref name=Hart>James D. Hart and Phillip W. Leininger. "Croaker Papers," in The Oxford Companion to American Literature''', 1995</ref>Marco Bozzaris (1825)Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems (1827) Further reading Wilson, James Grant, The Life and Letters of Fitz-Greene Halleck (New York, 1869). Wilson, James Grant, The Poetical Writings of Fitz-Greene Halleck (New York, 1869). Nelson Frederick Adkins, Fitz-Greene Halleck: An Early Knickerbocker Wit and Poet (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1930). Hallock, John Wesley Matthew. "The First Statue: Fitz-Greene Halleck and Homotextual Representation in Nineteenth-Century America." Ph.D. Dissertation, Temple University; DAI, Vol. 58-06A (1997): 2209, Temple University. Hallock, John Wesley Matthew, American Byron: Homosexuality & The Fall Of Fitz-Greene Halleck (Madison, Wisconsin: U. of Wisconsin Press, 2000). Notes References Ehrlich, Eugene and Gorton Carruth. The Oxford Illustrated Literary Guide to the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. Hallock, John W. M. The American Byron: Homosexuality and the Fall of Fitz-Greene Halleck''. University of Wisconsin Press, 2000. External links Halleck in Central Park, by Central Park Conservancy Fitz-Greene Halleck biography, Lehigh University digital library The Fitz-Greene Halleck Society 1790 births 1867 deaths American male poets People from Guilford, Connecticut Writers from New York City Deaf poets 19th-century American poets 19th-century American male writers American deaf people