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- ↑ Uranian Poetry Archived 2007-11-14 at the Wayback Machine on glbtq.com.
- ↑ Nelson, James G. Publisher to the Decadents: Leonard Smithers in the Careers of Beardsley, Wilde, Dowson. Penn State Press, 2000.
- ↑ Hewitt-Mcmanus, Thomas (January 2006). Withnail & I: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know but Were Too Drunk to Ask. ISBN 9781411658219.
- Smith, Timothy D'Arch. Love in Earnest: Some Notes on the Lives and Writings of English "Uranian" Poets from 1889 to 1930. Routledge & K. Paul, 1970.
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