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Maurice Bowra - A Life (Paperback)
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Maurice Bowra - A Life (Paperback)
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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 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unpublished manuscript material, this is the first ever biography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.
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