"In Thy Cedarn Prison Thou Waitest": Johnson's "Ionica" and Uranian Intertextuality
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| Year of publication | 2005 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Theory and Practice in English Studies |
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| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | William Johnson; William Johnson Cory; Eton College; Victorian pedagogy; Pederasty; Paederasty; Uranian; Uranian poetry; Ionica; An Invocation; Comatas; Homoeroticism; Victorian Literature; Gay Studies |
| Description | This paper examines the pederastic pedagogy practiced by the Eton master William Johnson (later Cory), particularly as this relates to his fostering of the Uranian movement through the verses of his 'Ionica'. It provides a close reading of his poem 'An Invocation', a poem that employs the Classical story of the imprisoned goatherd Comatas, who was sustained through the intervention of the Muses, to illustrate the boxed positionality of the Victorian Uranians. |