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The Reverend Edwin Emmanuel Bradford (1860-1944) was an English clergyman and Uranian poet. He attended Exeter College, Oxford, and received his B.A. 1884. He was vicar of Nordelph, Norfolk, from 1905 to 1944. Rev. Bradford's verse was outspokenly gay, but also remarkably popular during his lifetime. His work can just barely be interpreted as a sign of innocent "romantic friendship" with youths, but several verses, such as "The Bather in the Blue Grotto at Capri" and "Alan", are plainly erotically inspired. Many of his poems are direct though sometimes self-effacing pleas of love to the young males in his life. In the Reverend's own words:

Here's a loyal and a loving heart,
Take it, lad, or leave it.

In 2023, an anthology collection My Love Is Like All Lovely Things, showcases Brandford's poetry and includes exhaustive analysis of his life and work. The website Greek Love includes a shorter essay by the same author.^[1]

Works

Sonnets Songs & Ballads (1908)
Passing the Love of Women and Other Poems (1913)
In Quest of Love and Other Poems (1913)
Lays of Love and Life (1916)
The New Chivalry and Other Poems (1918)
The Romance of Youth and Other Poems (1920)
Ralph Rawdon: a Story in Verse (1922)
The True Aristocracy (1923)
The Tree of Knowledge (1925)
The Kingdom within You and Other Poems (1927)
Strangers and Pilgrims (1929)
Boyhood (1930)

Further information

Bradford, Rev. E. E.; Paul Webb, ed. (1988). To Boys Unknown. London: GMP Publishers.
D'Arch Smith, Timothy (1970). Love in Earnest. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

This page uses material from the Wikipedia article, Edwin Emmanuel Bradford.

External links

2023 anthology (Amazon link)
"Edwin Emmanuel Bradford" (Original BoyWiki Article)
EYES LIT WITH THE LIGHT OF OTHER SKIES, The joyful life of Edwin Emmanuel Bradford, By C. Caunter, December 2022 - Greek Love Through The Ages.

References

↑ ‘DR. BRADFORD IS OBVIOUSLY A LOVER OF BOYS’: Early-20th-century reactions to the theme of boy love in the poetry of E. E. Bradford, by C. Caunter, May 2023. (Archived version).

[1] ‘DR. BRADFORD IS OBVIOUSLY A LOVER OF BOYS’: Early-20th-century reactions to the theme of boy love in the poetry of E. E. Bradford, by C. Caunter, May 2023. (Archived version).

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-The Reverend '''Edwin Emmanuel Bradford''' (1860-1944) was an English clergyman and Uranian poet. He attended Exeter College, Oxford, and received his B.A. 1884. He was vicar of Nordelph, Norfolk, from 1905 to 1944. Rev. Bradford's verse was outspokenly gay, but also remarkably popular during his lifetime. His work can just barely be interpreted as a sign of innocent "romantic friendship" with youths, but several verses, such as "The Bather in the Blue Grotto at Capri" and "Alan", are plainly erotically inspired. Many of his poems are direct though sometimes self-effacing pleas of love to the young males in his life. In the Reverend's own words:
+__NOTOC__The Reverend '''Edwin Emmanuel Bradford''' (1860-1944) was an English clergyman and Uranian poet. He attended Exeter College, Oxford, and received his B.A. 1884. He was vicar of Nordelph, Norfolk, from 1905 to 1944. Rev. Bradford's verse was outspokenly gay, but also remarkably popular during his lifetime. His work can just barely be interpreted as a sign of innocent "romantic friendship" with youths, but several verses, such as "The Bather in the Blue Grotto at Capri" and "Alan", are plainly erotically inspired. Many of his poems are direct though sometimes self-effacing pleas of love to the young males in his life. In the Reverend's own words:
-:Here's a loyal and a loving heart,
+<blockquote>
-:Take it, lad, or leave it.
+''Here's a loyal and a loving heart,''
+''Take it, lad, or leave it.''
+</blockquote>
+In 2023, an anthology collection [[My_Love_Is_Like_All_Lovely_Things_(book)|My Love Is Like All Lovely Things]], showcases Brandford's poetry and includes exhaustive analysis of his life and work. The website ''Greek Love'' includes a shorter essay by the same author.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20230620133632/https://greek-love.com/index.php/modern-europe/great-britain/1910s-20s-views-on-boy-love?highlight=WyJicmFkZm9yZCJd ‘DR. BRADFORD IS OBVIOUSLY A LOVER OF BOYS’: Early-20th-century reactions to the theme of boy love in the poetry of E. E. Bradford, by C. Caunter, May 2023.] (Archived version).</ref>
 ==Works==
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 * ''Boyhood''  (1930)
-==Further Information==
+==Further information==
 *Bradford, Rev. E. E.; Paul Webb, ed. (1988).  ''To Boys Unknown''. London: GMP Publishers.
 *D'Arch Smith, Timothy (1970). ''Love in Earnest''. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
-This page uses material from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page/ Wikipedia] article [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Emmanuel_Bradford Edwin Emmanuel Bradford].
+This page uses material from the Wikipedia article, [[Wikipedia:Edwin_Emmanuel_Bradford|Edwin Emmanuel Bradford]].
+==External links==
-==External Links==
+*2023 anthology [https://www.amazon.com/Love-Like-All-Lovely-Things/dp/1914571304/ (Amazon link)]
 *[http://boywiki.org/en/Edwin_Emmanuel_Bradford "Edwin Emmanuel Bradford"] (Original BoyWiki Article)
-[[Category:Official_Encyclopedia]][[Category:People]][[Category:People: Deceased]]
+*[https://www.greek-love.com/index.php/modern-europe/great-britain/not-schools-1800-99/edwin-emmanuel-bradford-1860-1944 EYES LIT WITH THE LIGHT OF OTHER SKIES, The joyful life of Edwin Emmanuel Bradford], By C. Caunter, December 2022 - [[Greek Love Through The Ages]].
+==References==
+[[Category:Official_Encyclopedia]][[Category:People]][[Category:People: Deceased]][[Category:People: British]][[Category:People: Artists and Poets]][[Category: People: Historical minor-attracted figures]][[Category:History & Events: 1910s]][[Category:History & Events: 1920s]]