Maurice Bowra : a Life.

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 wo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mitchell, Leslie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2009.
Temas:
Bowra, C. M. > (Cecil Maurice), > 1898-1971.
Bowra, C. M. > (Cecil Maurice), > 1898-1971
Wadham College > History.
Wadham College
1900-1999
College teachers > Great Britain > Biography.
Classicists > Great Britain > Biography.
Spécialistes de lettres classiques > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies.
Classicists
College teachers
Intellectual life
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Grande-Bretagne > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siècle.
Great Britain
Biographies
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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; Index.

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