Maurice Bowra : a life /
The first ever biography of Maurice Bowra - classicist, poet, wit, raconteur extraordinary, and the most famous don of his generation. - ;Maurice Bowra was, according to one's point of view, either the most distinguished or the most notorious Oxford don of the early twentieth century. Classicis...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford University Press,
2009.
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| Summary: | The first ever biography of Maurice Bowra - classicist, poet, wit, raconteur extraordinary, and the most famous don of his generation. - ;Maurice Bowra was, according to one's point of view, either the most distinguished or the most notorious Oxford don of the early twentieth century. Classicist, poet, wit, raconteur extraordinary, and Warden of Wadham College for over thirty years, he met nearly everyone of consequence in the worlds of literature and politics and had stories to tell about them all, from Jean Cocteau to Virginia Woolf, from Adolf Hitler to the Kennedys, from Isaiah Berlin to. |
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| Abstract: | "Maurice Bowra was regarded either as the most distinguished or the most notorious Oxford don of the early 20th century. Classicist, poet, wit, raconteur extraordinary, and Warden of Wadham College for over thirty years, he met nearly everyone of consequence in the worlds of literature and politics and had stories to tell about them all, from Jean Cocteau to Virginia Woolf, from Adolf Hitler to the Kennedys, from Isaiah Berlin to Charlie Chaplin. By force of personality and intellectual range, he influenced the thinking of almost everyone with whom he came into contact. Above all, brought up in Edwardian England, he was able to chart the ways in which the values of his youth were tested by new democratic ideas. His experiences allowed him to develop and employ theories of education that were startling, and which would mould the thinking of a generation of English intellectuals. Based upon a wide range of interviews and previously unpublished manuscript material, this book provides an early biography of Bowra, and covers every aspect of his life, from soldier on the Western Front to Oxford classicist, from celebrated wit to frustrated poet manque"-- Oxford Academic. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-374) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0191559040 9780191559044 6611985484 9786611985486 1281985481 9781281985484 019170072X 9780191700729 |