John Leslie Barford (1886–1937) was an

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Uranian poet The Uranians were a 19th-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 a ...

who wrote under the

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of Philebus. According to Timothy D'Arch Smith, he was a

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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.

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British gay writers 1886 births 1937 deaths English LGBT poets English male poets 20th-century English male writers {{UK-poet-stub