Uranian Poetry
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. The movement reached its peak between the late 1880s and mid 1890s, 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''. Etymology English advocates of homosexual emancipation such as Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds took to using the term "Uranian" to describe a comradely love that would bring about true democracy. The word was coined on the basis of classical sources, being inspired principally by the e ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Homosexuality
Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or Human sexual activity, sexual behavior between people of the same sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality is "an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions" exclusively to people of the same sex or gender. It also denotes Sexual identity, identity based on attraction, related behavior, and community affiliation. Along with bisexuality and heterosexuality, homosexuality is one of the three main categories of sexual orientation within the heterosexual–homosexual continuum. Although no single theory on the cause of sexual orientation has yet gained widespread support, scientists favor Biology and sexual orientation, biological theories. There is considerably more evidence supporting nonsocial, biological causes of sexual orientation than social ones, especially for males. A major hypothesis implicates the Prenatal development, prenatal environment, specifically the organizationa ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Masaryk University
Masaryk University (MU) (; ) is the second largest university in the Czech Republic, a member of the Compostela Group and the Utrecht Network. Founded in 1919 in Brno, it now consists of ten faculties and 35,115 students. It is named after Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first president of an independent Czechoslovakia as well as the leader of the movement for a second Czech university. In 1960 the university was renamed ''Jan Evangelista Purkyně University'' after Jan Evangelista Purkyně, a Czech biologist. In 1990, following the Velvet Revolution it regained its original name. Since 1922, over 171,000 students have graduated from the university. The Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Petr Fiala has been working part-time at Masaryk University for the entire duration of his mandate. He should therefore devote eight hours a week – thirty-two hours a month – to work for this university. Jan Fischer responded to this as follows: "I also cannot imagine that someone, in ad ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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John Leslie Barford
John Leslie Barford (1886–1937) was an English Uranian poet who wrote under the pseudonym A pseudonym (; ) or alias () is a fictitious name that a person assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true meaning ( orthonym). This also differs from a new name that entirely or legally replaces an individual's o ... of Philebus. According to Timothy D'Arch Smith, he was a doctor in the Merchant Navy. His works, which were privately printed, include ''Ladslove Lyrics'' (1918), ''Young Things'' (1921), ''Fantasies'' (1923) and ''Whimsies'' (1934).Smith, Timothy D'Arch. ''Love in Earnest: Some Notes on the Lives and Writings of English "Uranian" Poets from 1889 to 1930.'' Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970. References * Smith, Timothy D'Arch. ''Love in Earnest: Some Notes on the Lives and Writings of English "Uranian" Poets from 1889 to 1930.'' Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970. Notes English gay writers 1886 births 1937 deaths English LGBTQ poets Englis ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fabian S
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Charles Edward Sayle
Charles Edward Sayle (6 December 1864 – 4 July 1924) was an English Uranian poet, literary scholar and librarian. He was the youngest son of Robert Sayle, the founder of a Cambridge department store, and Priscilla Caroline Sayle. Educated at Rugby School, he matriculated in 1883 at New College, Oxford. He returned to Cambridge and was engaged on cataloguing work in the libraries of St John's College, Cambridge and the Union Society. In 1893 he entered Cambridge University Library and served as an under-librarian. His life was devoted to the library and to bibliography. He edited the ''Annals'' of the library, and his chief works for it were a ''Catalogue of Early English Printed Books'', four vols., 1900–1907; a ''Catalogue of the Bradshaw Collection of Irish Books'', three vols., 1916. He also made a catalogue of early printed books in the McClean Bequest to the Fitzwilliam Museum; and edited the works of Thomas Browne. His works include ''Bertha: a story of love'' (188 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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John Moray Stuart-Young
John Moray Stuart-Young (1881–1939) was an English Uranian poet, memoirist, novelist and merchant trader. Stuart-Young published numerous works, including books of poetry, novels, descriptions of African life and autobiographical works. His poems are closely linked to fin-de-siècle and Uranian themes, being informed by decadence, colonialism, and pederasty. Stuart-Young's 1905 memoirs focused on his supposed romantic relationship with Oscar Wilde during his adolescence. Stuart-Young presented forged letters by Wilde to support his claim. Wilde's biographers doubt that Stuart-Young ever met Wilde. Life and career Born John James Young in the slums of Manchester, Stuart-Young was poorly educated and treated badly by those around him. Beaten by his labourer father, his mother was forced to take in washing. All of his siblings died young of tuberculosis. Stuart-Young left school at 13, working for little reward as an office boy and clerk.Aldrich, Robert F. ''Colonialism and Ho ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Edmund John
Edmund John (27 November 1883 – 28 February 1917) was a British poet of the Uranian poetry school. His verses were modeled on the Symbolist poetry of Algernon Charles Swinburne and other earlier poets. Much of his work was condemned by critics for being overly decadent and unfashionable. He fought in the First World War but was invalided out in 1916. He died a year later in Taormina, Sicily Sicily (Italian language, Italian and ), officially the Sicilian Region (), is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy, regions of Italy. With 4. ....*D'Arch Smith, Timothy (1970). ''Love in Earnest''. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Bibliography * ''The Flute of Sardonyx: Poems'' (1913) * ''The Wind in the Temple: Poems'' (1915) * ''Symphonie Symbolique'' (1919) References External links ''The Flute of Sardonyx: Poems'' (1913) at www.oldstilepress 1883 births 1917 deaths Br ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Edwin Emmanuel Bradford
Edwin Emmanuel Bradford (21 August 1860 – 7 February 1944) was an English clergyman and a Uranians, Uranian poet and writer of stories, articles and sermons. His prolific verse celebrating the high spiritual status of love between men and boys was remarkably well-received and favourably reviewed in his lifetime. Life Early life and education Edwin Emmanuel Bradford was the eighth and youngest child of precious metal worker Edwin Greenslade Bradford, who had a business on the Strand in Torquay, and Maria Wellman. His mother died in 1873 when he was twelve or thirteen. The next year his father, much altered since his wife's death, committed suicide. The young Bradford attended Castle College, a high-class preparatory school (United Kingdom), preparatory school in Torquay, and matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford, Exeter College, Oxford in 1881. He was awarded a British_undergraduate_degree_classification#Third_Class_honours, Third Class honours Bachelor of Arts, B.A. in Theolog ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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John Gambril Nicholson
John Gambril (Francis) Nicholson (1866–1931) was an English school teacher, poet, and amateur photographer. He was one of the Uranians, a clandestine group of British men who wrote poetry idealizing the beauty and love of adolescent boys. As a school master at various boarding schools in England and Wales, Nicholson formed "passionate friendships" with some of his students, and dedicated much of his poetry to favoured students. Biography John Gambrill Nicholson (the Francis was added later and the -ll / -l spelling varied over the years) was born in Essex in 1866. He was educated locally at the King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford, where one of his teachers was Frederick Rolfe, a gay man who would go on to a career as a noted novelist and artist. He studied at Oxford University before entering upon his career as an English Master at various schools in England and Wales: at Buxton (1884–7); Ashton (1887–8); Rydal Mount School, Colwyn Bay (1888–94), where he also coac ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Charles Kains Jackson
Charles Philip Castle Kains Jackson (1857–1933) was an English poet closely associated with the Uranian school. Biography Beginning in 1888, in addition to a career as a lawyer, he served as editor for the periodical ''The Artist and Journal of Home Culture'', which became something of an official periodical for the movement. In it, he praised such artists as Henry Scott Tuke (to whom he dedicated a homo-erotic sonnet entitled "Sonnet on a picture by Tuke") and Henry Oliver Walker. He also befriended such similar-minded contemporaries as Frederick William Rolfe, Lord Alfred Douglas and John Addington Symonds. The homosexual and pederastic aspects of ''The Artist and Journal of Home Culture'' declined after the replacement of Kains Jackson as an editor in 1894. The final issue edited by Kains Jackson included his essay, ''the New Chivalry'', an argument for the moral and societal benefits of pederasty and erotic male friendship on the grounds of both Platonism and Social D ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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John Francis Bloxam
John Francis Bloxam (also known as Jack Bloxam) (1873–1928) was an English Uranian poetry, Uranian author and churchman. Bloxam was an undergraduate at Exeter College, Oxford when his story, "The Priest and the Acolyte", appeared in the sole issue of ''The Chameleon: a Bazaar of Dangerous and Smiling Chances'', a periodical which he also served as editor. The story details the love affair of a young Anglican priest and his lover, a 14-year-old boy. The affair, when discovered, triggers a suicide pact of both priest and boy. A poem, ''A Summer Hour'', also with pederastic themes, appeared in ''The Artist and Journal of Home Culture, The Artist''. The contents of ''The Chameleon'', which also included Lord Alfred Douglas's notorious poem ''Two Loves'', would be used against Oscar Wilde in his trial. Bloxam was a convert to Anglo-Catholicism, and became a priest.Hanson, Ellis: ''Decadence and Catholicism'', page 13. Harvard University Press, 1997. Selected publications *"The Priest a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Montague Summers
Augustus Montague Summers (10 April 1880 – 10 August 1948) was an English author, clergyman, and teacher. As an independent scholar, he published many works on the English drama of the Stuart Restoration (1660–1688) and helped to organise and to promote the performance of plays from that period. He also wrote extensively on the occult and has been characterized as "arguably the most seminal twentieth century purveyor of pop culture occultism." Summers initially prepared for a career in the Church of England at Oxford and Lichfield, and was ordained as an Anglican deacon in 1908. He then converted to Roman Catholicism and began styling himself as a Catholic priest. He was, however, never under the authority of any Catholic diocese or religious order in England, and it is doubtful that he was ever actually ordained to the priesthood. While employed as a teacher of English and Latin, he pursued scholarly work on the English theatre of the 17th century. For his contribution ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |