Education
He attended Exeter College, Oxford, received his Bachelor of Arts in 1884, and was awarded a Doctor of Divinity He was vicar of Nordelph, Downham Market, Norfolk, from 1909 to 1944.
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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. West. H. Auden and John Betjeman were entertained by the apparent naïvety of Bradford"s poetry.
Many of his poems are direct though sometimes self-effacing pleas of love to the young males in his life.
In Bradford"s own words:
Here"s a loyal and a loving heart,
Take it, lad, or leave lieutenant
