LEADER 02958nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910465567303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786611985486 010 $a0-19-155904-0 010 $a1-281-98548-1 035 $a(CKB)2560000000295099 035 $a(EBL)746711 035 $a(OCoLC)781613877 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000302773 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11262246 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000302773 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10273888 035 $a(PQKB)10582932 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000022255 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC746711 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL746711 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10288352 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL198548 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000295099 100 $a20081008d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMaurice Bowra$b[electronic resource] $ea life /$fLeslie Mitchell 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (348 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-929584-0 311 $a0-19-170072-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [320]-374) and index. 327 $aCover 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; Index 330 $aMaurice 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.... 606 $aCollege teachers$zGreat Britain$vBiography 606 $aClassicists$zGreat Britain$vBiography 607 $aGreat Britain$xIntellectual life$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCollege teachers 615 0$aClassicists 676 $a378.42574092 676 $a942.082092 700 $aMitchell$b L. G$g(Leslie George)$0988832 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465567303321 996 $aMaurice Bowra$92261296 997 $aUNINA