Bradley, Andrew Cecil 1851-1935
English critic

Born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, the brother of Francis Herbert Bradley, he was educated at Cheltenham College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he became a Fellow in 1874. The most influential commentator of his generation, he was Professor of Literature and History at Liverpool (1822), of English Language and Literature at Glasgow (1890), and of Poetry at Oxford from 1901 to 1906. He published Poetry for Poetry's Sake (1901), and Commentary on 'In Memoriam' (1901), but made his name with his magisterial Shakespearean Tragedy (1904). He also published Oxford Lectures on Poetry (1909).