The Uranians were a relatively obscure group of pederastic poets who flourished between 1870 and 1930, particularly among the graduates of Oxford and Cambridge. The group's name derives, in part, from the Platonic theory of "heavenly" or "Uranian" pederasty. Their work was characterized by a sentimental infatuation for pubescent boys and by a use of conservative verse forms. Pederastic courtship scene Athenian black-figure amphora, 5th c. ... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... 1870 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Uranian is the English adaptation of the German word Urning, which was created by the early homosexual activist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs. ... Jump to: navigation, search Pederasty, as idealized by the ancient Greeks, was a relationship and bond between an adolescent boy and an adult man outside of his immediate family. ... Verse is a writing that uses meter as its primary organisational mode, as opposed to prose, which uses grammatical and discoursal units like sentences and paragraphs. ...

The chief poets of this clique were William Johnson, Lord Alfred Douglas, John Gambril Nicholson, Rev. E. E. Bradford, John Addington Symonds, Edmund John, Fabian S. Woodley, and several other pseudonymous authors such as "Philebus" and "A. Newman". The flamboyantly eccentric novelist Frederick Rolfe, also known as "Baron Corvo", was a unifying presence in their social network. The fame of their work was limited by late Victorian and Edwardian taboos, the extremely small editions in which their verse was promulgated, and the generally saccharine nature of their poetry. William Johnson: There is more than one person sharing this name. ... Lord Alfred Douglas Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas KBE (born October 22, 1870; died March 20, 1945), nicknamed Bosie, was the third son of John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, and the former Sibyl Montgomery. ... John Gambril Francis Nicholson (6 October 1866 - 1 July 1931) was an English school teacher and Uranian poet. ... (Rev. ... John Addington Symonds was the name of a father and son, both English writers. ... Edmund John (27 November 1883 -28 February 1917) was a British poet of the Uranian school whose verses were modelled on the Symbolist poetry of Swinburne and other earlier poets. ... Jump to: navigation, search Fabian Strachan Woodley (19 July 1888–8 August 1957) was a British poet of the Uranian school. ... Frederick William Serafino August Lewis Mary Rolfe, better known as Baron Corvo (July 22, 1860 - October 25, 1913), was an English novelist and eccentric. ... Victorian can refer to: people from or attributes of places called Victoria (disambiguation page), including Victoria, Australia, people who lived during the British Victorian era of the 19th century, and aspects of the Victorian era, for example: Victorian architecture Victorian fashion Victorian morality Victorian literature This is a disambiguation page... The Edwardian period or Edwardian era in the United Kingdom is the period 1901 to 1910, the reign of King Edward VII. It is sometimes extended to include the period to the start of World War I in 1914 or even the end of the war in 1918. ... A taboo is a strong social prohibition (or ban) relating to any area of human activity or social custom declared as sacred and forbidden; breaking of the taboo is usually considered objectionable or abhorrent by society. ...

Marginally associated with their world were more famous writers such as Oscar Wilde and Edward Carpenter, as well as the obscure but prophetic poet-printer Ralph Chubb, with his majestic lithographic volumes celebrating the boy as an Ideal. The Uranian quest to revive the Greek notion of paiderastia was not successful; later gay poets would look instead to the androphilic inspiration of Walt Whitman and A. E. Housman, though a number of writers, such as E. M. Forster, handle the same themes in a Modernist way, as he does in several of his posthumous stories, such as "The Torque". Jump to: navigation, search Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal OFlahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900) was an Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and short story writer. ... Jump to: navigation, search Edward Carpenter (29 August 1844 – 28 June 1929) was a socialist poet, anthologist, and an early homosexual activist. ... Ralph Nicholas Chubb (8 February 1892 - 14 January 1960) was a British poet, printer, and artist. ... Jump to: navigation, search This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... In the context of male homosexuality, androphilia is the mutual attraction of adult men. ... Jump to: navigation, search Walt Whitman Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist born on Long Island, New York. ... Alfred Edward Housman (March 26, 1859 _ April 30, 1936) was an English poet and classical scholar, now best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. ... Jump to: navigation, search E. M. Forster Edward Morgan Forster (January 1, 1879 - June 7, 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. ... This article focuses on the cultural movement labeled modernism or the modern movement. See also: Modernism (Roman Catholicism) or Modernist Christianity; Modernismo for specific art movement(s) in Spain and Catalonia. ...

The only book-length study of the Uranians is Love In Earnest by Timothy d'Arch Smith (1970), though critics such as Richard Dellamora (Masculine Desire: The Sexual Politics of Victorian Aestheticism, 1990 [1]) and Linda Dowling (Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford, 1994 [2]) have contributed more recently to the scant knowledge about this group. As with larger aesthetic movements, canonicity issues have even reached the Uranians, as with a recent article by Michael Kaylor ("Beautiful Dripping Fragments", Victorian Poetry, 40.2, 2002 [3]), which situates Gerard Manley Hopkins rather squarely within this group. Jump to: navigation, search Gerard Manley Hopkins (July 28, 1844 - June 8, 1889) was a British Victorian poet and Jesuit priest, whose verse has been widely admired for the vividness of its expression. ...