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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] |
Francis Edwin Murray
Francis Edwin Murray (1854-1932) was a Uranian poet and publisher of the late 19th and early 20th century. Almost totally forgotten today, his books of verse include ''Rondeaux of Boyhood'' (1923), limited to 300 copies, and ''From a Lover's Garden: More Rondeaux and Other Verses of Boyhood'' (1924), limited to 225 copies. The former was written under the pseudonym A. Newman. The latter contained an introduction by fellow Uranian John Gambril Nicholson. Murray also wrote a bibliography of Austin Dobson, published in 1900. Murray worked as a printer, bookseller and publisher in Brompton Road, London. He printed the works of other Uranians, including John Leslie Barford. Bruce Robinson has acknowledged ''Rondeaux of Boyhood'' as source material for the dialogue of Uncle Monty in Withnail and I ''Withnail and I'' is a 1987 British black comedy film written and directed by Bruce Robinson. Loosely based on Robinson's life in London in the late 1960s, the plot follows two unemploye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uranian (sexology)
Uranian (from the Ancient Greek Aphrodite Urania (, )) is a historical term for homosexual men. The word was also used as an adjective in association with male homosexuality or inter-male attraction regardless of sexual orientation. An early use of the term appears in Friedrich Schiller's 'Sixth Letter' in the '' Aesthetic Education of Man'' (1795–96). Schiller claims that state institutions are so jealous they would rather share their servants with a Cytherean Venus than a Uranian Venus.Friedrich Schiller. 'Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man.' In Harrison, Wood and Gaiger eds. ''Art in Theory 1648-1815: An Anthology of Changing Ideas''. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2000. p. 800. The term was used by activist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs in a series of five booklets from 1864 to 1865 collected under the title (''The Riddle of Man–Manly Love''). The term ''uranian'' was adopted by English-language advocates of homosexual emancipation in the Victorian era, such as Edward Carpent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Lord Alfred Douglas
Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 – 20 March 1945), also known as Bosie Douglas, was an English poet and journalist, and a lover of Oscar Wilde. At Oxford University he edited an undergraduate journal, ''The Spirit Lamp'', that carried a homoeroticism, homoerotic subtext, and met Wilde, starting a close but stormy relationship. Douglas's father, John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, abhorred it and set out to humiliate Wilde, publicly accusing him of homosexuality. Wilde sued him for criminal libel, but Quensberry produced witnesses who attested to the truth of his claim, and Wilde was later imprisoned. On his release, he briefly lived with Douglas in Naples, but they had separated by the time Wilde died in 1900. Douglas married a poet, Olive Custance, in 1902 and had a son, Raymond. On converting to Catholicism in 1911, he repudiated homosexuality, and in a Catholic magazine, ''Plain English'', expressed openly antisemitic views, but rejected the policies of Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Samuel Elsworth Cottam
Samuel Elsworth Cottam (7 August 1863 – 30 March 1943) was an English poet and Anglican priest. Biography Cottam was born in Upper Broughton, Salford, in 1863. He graduated from Exeter College, Oxford, in 1885, where he was a friend of Edwin Emmanuel Bradford. He was a lifelong Anglo-Catholic, unlike Bradford who later became a Modernist. Cottam and Bradford were co-Chaplains of St George's Anglican Church in Paris, France. He was later incumbent at Wootton, Vale of White Horse, where John Betjeman and W. H. Auden went to see him celebrate sung mass. Will In his will, Cottam left trust funds for "the purchase of objects of beauty for the furtherance of religion in ancient gothic churches". This trust is now administered by the Friends of Friendless Churches Friends of Friendless Churches (FoFC) is a registered charity formed in 1957, active in England and Wales, which campaigns for and rescues redundant historic places of worship threatened by demolition, decay, o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Addington Symonds
John Addington Symonds Jr. (; 5 October 1840 – 19 April 1893) was an English poet and literary critic. A cultural historian, he was known for his work on the Renaissance, as well as numerous biographies of writers and artists. Although married with children, Symonds supported male love (homosexuality), which he believed could include pederastic as well as Gay, egalitarian relationships, referring to it as ''l'amour de l'impossible'' (love of the impossible). He also wrote much poetry inspired by his same-sex affairs. Early life and education Symonds was born in Bristol, England, in 1840. His father, the physician John Addington Symonds (physician), John Addington Symonds (1807–1871), was the author of ''Criminal Responsibility'' (1869), ''The Principles of Beauty'' (1857) and ''Sleep and Dreams''. The younger Symonds, considered delicate, did not take part in games at Harrow School after the age of 14, and he showed no particular promise as a scholar. Symonds moved to Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Symposium (Plato)
The ''Symposium'' (, ''Symposion'') is a Socratic dialogue by Plato, dated . It depicts a friendly contest of extemporaneous speeches given by a group of notable Athenian men attending a Symposium, banquet. The men include the philosopher Socrates, the general and statesman Alcibiades, and the comic playwright Aristophanes. The Panegyric, panegyrics are to be given in praise of Eros, the god of love and sex. In the ''Symposium'', Eros is recognized both as erotic lover and as a phenomenon capable of inspiring courage, valor, great deeds and works, and vanquishing man's natural fear of death. It is seen as transcending its earthly origins and attaining spiritual heights. The extraordinary elevation of the concept of love raises a question of whether some of the most extreme extents of meaning might be intended as humor or farce. ''Eros'' is almost always translated as "love," and the English word has its own varieties and ambiguities that provide additional challenges to the effor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Johnson Cory
William Johnson Cory (9 January 1823 – 11 June 1892), born William Johnson, was an English educator and poet. He was dismissed from his post at Eton for encouraging a culture of intimacy, possibly non-sexual, between teachers and pupils. He is widely known for his English version of the elegy ''Heraclitus'' by Callimachus. Life He was born at Great Torrington in Devon, and educated at Eton, where he was afterwards a renowned master, nicknamed "Tute" (short for "tutor") by his pupils. After Eton, where he won the Newcastle Scholarship, he studied at King's College, Cambridge, where he won the Chancellor's Medal for an English poem on Plato in 1843, and the Craven Scholarship in 1844. He was a writer of Latin verse as well as English verse. Although best known for the much-anthologised "Heraclitus", an adaptation of an elegy by Callimachus, ("They told me Heraclitus, they told me you were dead"), his chief poetical work is the collection ''Ionica''.''Ionica'' (Smith, Elder & Co. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
