02516nam 2200505Ia 450 991097295270332120240514023437.001915590409780191559044(MiAaPQ)EBC7034680(CKB)24235109000041(MiAaPQ)EBC746711(Au-PeEL)EBL746711(CaPaEBR)ebr10288352(CaONFJC)MIL198548(OCoLC)781613877(Au-PeEL)EBL7034680(OCoLC)1294629825(EXLCZ)992423510900004120081008d2009 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMaurice Bowra a life /Leslie Mitchell1st ed.Oxford ;New York :Oxford University Press,2009.1 online resource (xii, 385 pages, [8] pages of plates) illustrationsIncludes bibliographical references (p. [320]-374) and index.Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; 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 BowraatLarge,1945 -1970; Part IV. Reflection; 12 The 1960s; 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.College teachersGreat BritainBiographyClassicistsGreat BritainBiographyGreat BritainIntellectual life20th centuryCollege teachersClassicists378.42574092Mitchell L. G(Leslie George)988832MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910972952703321Maurice Bowra4462682UNINA