Publication details

"In Thy Cedarn Prison Thou Waitest": Johnson's "Ionica" and Uranian Intertextuality

Authors

KAYLOR Michael Matthew

Year of publication 2005
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Theory and Practice in English Studies
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
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.

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