Edwin Emmanuel Bradford (1860–1944) was one of the Uranians, that group of late-Victorian and early-20th-century poets and prose writers who, often taking inspiration from classical Greece, sang the praises of the love of boys and advocated its rehabilitation in society. Virtually his entire poetic body of work – twelve volumes that appeared between 1908 and 1930 – is dedicated openly to this theme. Rather than looking back to classical antiquity, it is rooted largely in his own time and experience. Bradford’s poetry is exhilaratingly fresh, original, joyful and touching; a self-assured affirmation of what is good and beautiful. This anthology draws on the entirety of his poetic output and includes the first in-depth look at his life and work, addressing questions such as how his boy-love poetry could have been received so favourably in early-20th-century Britain. This second edition includes additional poems, a fully revised and expanded biographical essay, and an overview of what reviewers in Bradford’s time wrote about the theme of boy love in his poetry. ★ On the first edition: ‘Colossal. What a job of work and what fine illustrations.’ – Timothy d’Arch Smith , author of Love in Earnest. Some Notes on the Lives and Writings of English ‘Uranian’ Poets from 1889 to 1930