Uranian Love

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The term is derived from an allusion to the goddess Aphrodite in Plato's symposium. It is a literary word for homosexual, and it has been used in this sense since the late nineteenth century.

The termionlogy was particularly popular amongst writers of the period, and later writers at the time of the First World War.  

Among those to use it are the writer C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, who wrote a number of odes to Uranian love, and the poetWilfred Owen,

with whom it is speculated Scott-Moncrieff may have enjoyed a brief relationship.  The nature of this relationship is subject to much debate, 

although Owen's latest biographer, Dominic Hibbard has suggested that a poem later written by Scott-Moncrieff and addressed to Mr. W. O, in emulation of a sonnet written by William Shakespeare and addressed to someone he admired, possibly in the wake of a failed sexual relationship. Hibbard's opinion on the matter is that Wilfred Owen drank too much wine at Half Moon Street, home of Robert Baldwin Ross, and perhaps took matters further than intended. Uranian love, therefore, is a form of homosexual love, often also involving an aversion to the opposite sex. Famous uranians include Oscar Wilde, Robert Baldwin Ross, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff , Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon.