Uranians - Knowledge (XXG)

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describes them as "a circle of English writers whose main interest was in the adolescent boy (pederasts in the classical sense)". Mader defines them as "a loosely knit group of British and American homosexual poets writing between approximately 1880 and 1930, sharing a number of basic cultural and

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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

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The term Uranian came to be much used in the circle of Uranian writers for its novelty and euphoniousness, its literal meaning "heavenly" giving it a cachet of the noble and sublime. While the same classical sources supplied the German coinage

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forms. Many Uranian writers borrowed classical Greek themes such as paganism, democracy and male camaraderie or intimacy, applying these concepts to their own time. Besides Greek themes, they made use of Oriental, Christian and other motifs.

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among the Uranian poets. Although not expatriates, they were well-versed in the Uranian material being written in England, sought to influence an English Uranian audience and struck a rather English pose in their poetry.

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Historian Neil McKenna has argued that Uranian poetry had a central role in the upper-class homosexual subcultures of the Victorian period. He insisted that poetry was the main medium through which writers such as

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by Michael Matthew Kaylor (2006; available as an open-access E-text). Kaylor expands the Uranian canon by situating several major Victorians within the group. Other critics, such as Richard Dellamora

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literary assumptions derived on one hand from Walter Pater, and on the other from Walt Whitman." Kaylor uses the definition "a cluster of paederastic writers active in England from roughly 1858-1930".

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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 epithet

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d'Arch Smith defines the Uranians as a "group of poets on the edge of, and sometimes outside, the circle who celebrated in their poetry the love of adolescent boys." The

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The Uranian writers formed a rather cohesive group with a well-expressed philosophy. Their work is characterized by an idealised appeal to the history of

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Poems by the Uranians – as well as by their American counterparts, sometimes called the "Calamites" after the "Calamus" section in Walt Whitman's

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sought to challenge anti-homosexual ideas. The Uranians met each other and stayed in touch through such organisations as the

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in the 1860s, this German derivation ran parallel to the English derivation "Uranian" rather than being its source.

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Lad's Love: An anthology of Uranian poetry and prose. Volume II: Edmund St. Gascoigne Mackie to Cuthbert Wright

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