02958nam 2200625Ia 450 991046556730332120200520144314.097866119854860-19-155904-01-281-98548-1(CKB)2560000000295099(EBL)746711(OCoLC)781613877(SSID)ssj0000302773(PQKBManifestationID)11262246(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000302773(PQKBWorkID)10273888(PQKB)10582932(StDuBDS)EDZ0000022255(MiAaPQ)EBC746711(Au-PeEL)EBL746711(CaPaEBR)ebr10288352(CaONFJC)MIL198548(EXLCZ)99256000000029509920081008d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrMaurice Bowra[electronic resource] a life /Leslie MitchellOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20091 online resource (348 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-929584-0 0-19-170072-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [320]-374) and index.Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Plates; List of Short Titles; Preface; Part I. Formation; 1 From China to Cheltenham; 2 War, 1914-1918; 3 New College, 1919-1922; Part II. Fundamentals; 4 Greece; 5 Poetry; 6 Sex and Sexuality; Part III. Action; 7 Oxford, 1922-1938; 8 Bowra and the Wider World, 1922-1939; 9 Germany and America; 10 Warden of Wadham, 1938-1970; 11 Bowra at Large, 1945-1970; Part IV. Reflection; 12 The 1960's; 13 Heaven or Hell; Endnotes; Select Bibliography; IndexMaurice 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 Charlie Chaplin. By force of personality and intellectual range, he influenced the thinking of almost everyone with whom he came into contact....College teachersGreat BritainBiographyClassicistsGreat BritainBiographyGreat BritainIntellectual life20th centuryElectronic books.College teachersClassicists378.42574092942.082092Mitchell L. G(Leslie George)988832MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465567303321Maurice Bowra2261296UNINA