Uranians

For homosexual terminology, see Uranian (sexuality).

The Uranians were a late-19th-century and early-20th-century clandestine group of up to several dozen male homosexual poets and prose writers who principally wrote on the subject of the love of (or by) adolescent boys. In a strict definition they were an English literary and cultural movement; in a broader definition there were also American Uranians.[a] The movement reached its peak between the late 1880s and mid 1890s,[5] but has been regarded as stretching between 1858, when William Johnson Cory's poetry collection Ionica appeared, and 1930, the year of publication of Samuel Elsworth Cottam's Cameos of Boyhood and Other Poems and of E. E. Bradford's last collection, Boyhood.[6]

  1. ^ Timothy d'Arch-Smith (1970). Love in Earnest: Some Notes on the Lives and Writings of English 'Uranian' Poets from 1889 to 1930. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
  2. ^ Dynes, Wayne R., ed. (2016). The Encyclopedia of Homosexuality. Volume II. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. p. 1353.
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  4. ^ Michael Matthew Kaylor, ed. (2010a). Lad's Love: An anthology of Uranian poetry and prose. Volume I: John Leslie Barford to Edward Cracroft Lefroy. Kansas City: Valancourt Books. p. xiii.
  5. ^ Edsall, Nicholas C. (2003), Toward Stonewall: Homosexuality and Society in the Modern Western World, University of Virginia Press, ISBN 0-8139-2211-9
  6. ^ Michael Matthew Kaylor, ed. (2010a). Lad's Love: An anthology of Uranian poetry and prose. Volume I: John Leslie Barford to Edward Cracroft Lefroy. Kansas City: Valancourt Books. pp. xiii, xvi.


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