English poet Edmund John was BOTD in 1883. Born in London, little is known about his early life or education. As an adult, he pursued a number of romantic relationships with adolescent boys, and was a satellite member of the Uranian Poets, publishing the volumes The Flute of Sardonyx and The Wind in the Temple, celebrating brotherly love between men and the beauty of teenaged boys. A letter written to one of his teenaged paramours gives a hint of his florid literary style: “I have received your adorable illustrated letter this morning and loved it so much I immediately made an altar before it, lit by amber candles in copper candlesticks, burnt incense before it and kissed its extreme beautifulness.” His work was considered too decadent for early 20th century tastes and was not successful. At the outbreak of World War One, he joined the British Army, but was discharged in 1916 due to illness. He died in 1917 in Taormina in Sicily, aged 33. A third volume of poems, Symphony Symbolique, was published posthumously in 1919, but was eclipsed by the popularity of war poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen.