Rev. E.E. Bradford's profileAn English clergyman and Uranian poet and novelist. He attended Exeter College, Oxford, received his B.A. in 1884, and was awarded a D.D. He was vicar of Nordelph, Downham Market, Norfolk, from 1909 to 1944. Towards the beginning of his life Bradford was an Anglo-Catholic but he subsequently became a Modernist.
Bradford's verse was outspokenly homoerotic, but also remarkably popular during his lifetime given the prudery of Victorian England. W. H. Auden and John Betjeman, were entertained by the apparent naivety of Bradford's poetry.
Bradford's 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.
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