English classical scholar, literary critic and academic (1898–1971)
Sir
Cecil Maurice Bowra
CH, FBA
Maurice Bowra being shown a computer in 1965[1]
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford
In office 1951–1954
Preceded by
John Lowe
Succeeded by
Alic Halford Smith
Personal details
Born
(1898-04-08)8 April 1898 Jiujiang, China
Died
4 July 1971(1971-07-04) (aged 73) Oxford, England
Alma mater
New College, Oxford
Military career
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Service/branch
British Army
Years of service
1917–1918
Unit
Royal Field Artillery
Battles/wars
First World War
Third Battle of Ypres
Battle of Cambrai (1917)
Ludendorff Offensive
Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra, CH, FBA (/ˈbaʊrə/; 8 April 1898 – 4 July 1971) was an English classical scholar, literary critic and academic, known for his wit. He was Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, from 1938 to 1970, and served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1951 to 1954.
^William Roger Louis (November 2013). History of Oxford University Press: Volume III: 1896 to 1970. OUP Oxford. pp. 177, 290. ISBN 978-0-19-956840-6.
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substance apeiron. Scholars in other fields, e.g. Bertrand Russell and MauriceBowra, did not deny that Anaximander was the first who used the term apeiron...
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changed, architects sought to relay permanence through mathematics. MauriceBowra believes that these ideas influenced the theory of Pythagoras and his...
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congenial; the shy poet Cecil Day-Lewis, taken to Garsington by his tutor MauriceBowra, found it "a tremendous ordeal" and sought refuge "slinking gloomily...
immensely influential among subsequent generations of classicists. MauriceBowra said in 1939 of Syme's The Roman Revolution: "His work is extraordinarily...
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been made for us all by God![citation needed] Commenting on the poem, MauriceBowra observed that "...after the challenging, flaunting opening we are led...
unflattering portrait of MauriceBowra. Waugh was annoyed when friends did not recognize Bowra, and additionally annoyed to hear that Bowra claimed to enjoy the...
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'educated guesses', including for example a "brilliant supplement" by MauriceBowra in fr. 34, a hymn to the Dioscuri that includes a description of St...
Simon Gantillon, Dashiell Hammett, Émile Henriot, George S. Kaufman, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Oliver Onions, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Mihail Sadoveanu, Peyami...
Boris Pasternak (1890–1960) Soviet Union poetry, novel, translation MauriceBowra (1898–1971) 17 Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (1878–1947) Switzerland novel...
introduced to the Hypocrites' Club. Outside that club, he came to know MauriceBowra, then a young don at Wadham College. During his third year, Powell lived...
and her husband first lived near Oxford, where they socialised with MauriceBowra, John Buchan and Susan Buchan, and where she wrote her early novels...
Adventure, 2012, p. 120. Henry Hardy (December 2011). James Morwood (ed.). "MauriceBowra on Patrick Leigh Fermor". Wadham College Gazette 2011: 106–112. {{cite...