England's Uranian (boysexual) poets flourished from the 1890s to the 1930s, expressing in their poems "the love that dares not speak its name," a quote by Oscar Wilde that did not / does not refer to the gay attraction of adult males to adult males, but rather the attraction of adult males to boys in their teen poetic hearts leaping toward this or that boy, whether it was an immaculate uniformed Eton or Harrow lad or a begimed-faced boy-apprentice to one of London's many working-class trades. The poems the Uranian poets hymned to boys won acceptance in the highest literary circles. But with the trial and jailing of Oscar Wilde fresh and vivid in their minds, the poets were circumspect in what they wrote, yet, also, to some degree they were courageous in an era of militaristic heterosexulaity. The three poets in this collection, each given a generous representation of his poems, write to and about boys both cheerfully and longingly, creating idealized boys and nostalgic boyhoods in verse which, sadly, were doomed never to attain the ranks of best English love poems because the poets, ever forced by a hostile straight world to constrain their passions, wrote emotionally-shackled poems—and, of course, never was a great poem written with passion constrained.