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Uranians
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] |
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] |
