Poetry for Poetry's Sake (Esprios Classics): An Inaugural Lecture Delivered on June 5, 1901

Andrew Cecil Bradley, FBA (26 March 1851 - 2 September 1935) was an English literary scholar, best remembered for his work on Shakespeare. Bradley studied at Balliol College, Oxford. He obtained a Balliol Fellowship in 1874 and lectured first in English and subsequently in philosophy until 1881. He then took a permanent position at the University of Liverpool where he lectured on literature. In 1889 he moved to Glasgow as Regius Professor. In 1901 he was elected to the Oxford professorship of poetry. During his five years in this post he produced Shakespearean Tragedy (1904) and Oxford Lectures on Poetry (1909). He was later made an honorary fellow of Balliol and was awarded honorary doctorates from Liverpool, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Durham.