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Download or read book Maurice Bowra written by Leslie Mitchell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first ever biography of Maurice Bowra - classicist, poet, wit , raconteur extraordinary, and the most famous don of his generation.
Download or read book Maurice Bowra written by Leslie Mitchell and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Based upon a wide range of interviews and previously unpublished manuscript material, this is the first ever biography of Bowra, and covers every aspect of his life, from soldier on the Western Front to Oxford classicist,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 manqué.
Download or read book Pindar written by Cecil Maurice Bowra and published by Oxford Scholarly Classics. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1964, this volume remains the standard introduction to Pindar.
Book Synopsis Classical Greece by : Cecil Maurice Bowra
Download or read book Classical Greece written by Cecil Maurice Bowra and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profusely illustrated account of the history, government, people, customs, arts, theater, sports, cities and gods of ancient Greece.
Download or read book Heroic Poetry written by Cm Bowra and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Maurice Bowra by : Cecil Maurice Bowra
Download or read book Maurice Bowra written by Cecil Maurice Bowra and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1974 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late Sir Maurice Bowra (1898-1971), Warden of Wadham for over 30 years, sometime Professor of Poetry, and the ablest Vice-Chancellor and university administrator that England has known in recent years, was a figure who perhaps more than any other epitomised modern Oxford. As a classical scholar. and as a critic of European literature, he produced a stream of books that made their mark both by their originality and by their power to convey the spirit of the subject to the ordinary reader. A generous teacher, he was also, as the Times obituary said of him, 'a free thinker, an epicure and an uninhibited advocate of pleasure'; and his brilliant conversation, combined with a good nature unsual in one so witty, made him countless friends, on many of whom, especially as a young man, he exerted a profound influence.
Book Synopsis Greek Lyric Poetry from Alcman to Simonides by : C. M. Bowra
Download or read book Greek Lyric Poetry from Alcman to Simonides written by C. M. Bowra and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-13 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxford Scholarly Classics is a new series that makes available again great academic works from the archives of Oxford University Press. Reissued in uniform series design, the reissues will enable libraries, scholars, and students to gain fresh access to some of the finest scholarship of the last century.
Book Synopsis The Greek Experience by : Cecil Maurice Bowra
Download or read book The Greek Experience written by Cecil Maurice Bowra and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1994 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magnificent evocation of the Greeks from Homer to the fall of Athens in 404bc. 'With a kind of brilliant imaginative sympathy and knowledge, he evokes the life, the thought, the ideals, the philosophy, the virtues and the faults of these extraordinary people.' Rose Macaulay 'One has the compelling impression, on closing the book, of having finished a masterpiece.' Patrick Leigh Fermor
Book Synopsis The Romantic Imagination by : Cecil Maurice Bowra
Download or read book The Romantic Imagination written by Cecil Maurice Bowra and published by . This book was released on 1949-02-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Hedgehog and the Fox by : Isaiah Berlin
Download or read book The Hedgehog and the Fox written by Isaiah Berlin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-02 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Leo Tolstoy and the philosophy of history, the subject of the epilogue to War and Peace. Although there have been many interpretations of the adage, Berlin uses it to mark a fundamental distinction between human beings who are fascinated by the infinite variety of things and those who relate everything to a central, all-embracing system. Applied to Tolstoy, the saying illuminates a paradox that helps explain his philosophy of history: Tolstoy was a fox, but believed in being a hedgehog. One of Berlin's most celebrated works, this extraordinary essay offers profound insights about Tolstoy, historical understanding, and human psychology. This new edition features a revised text that supplants all previous versions, English translations of the many passages in foreign languages, a new foreword in which Berlin biographer Michael Ignatieff explains the enduring appeal of Berlin's essay, and a new appendix that provides rich context, including excerpts from reviews and Berlin's letters, as well as a startling new interpretation of Archilochus's epigram.
Book Synopsis Understanding Anthony Powell by : Nicholas Birns
Download or read book Understanding Anthony Powell written by Nicholas Birns and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas Birns provides a fresh examination of the British writer's career and growing reputation in this introduction to his work. Birns takes a global view of Powell's corpus, situating his works in context and explaining his place among Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and Henry Green, in the second generation of British modernists. Birns explains how Powell and his compatriots pioneered a "next wave" modernism in which experimentation and traditional narrative combined in a sustainable mode.
Book Synopsis From Virgil to Milton by : C. M. Bowra
Download or read book From Virgil to Milton written by C. M. Bowra and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Conversations with Isaiah Berlin by : Ramin Jahanbegloo
Download or read book Conversations with Isaiah Berlin written by Ramin Jahanbegloo and published by Halban Publishers. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating and witty dialogue with one of the greatest intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Ramin Jahanbegloo's interview with Isaiah Berlin grew into a series of five conversations which offer an intimate view of Berlin and his ideas. They include discussions on pluralism and liberty as well as the thinkers and writers who influenced Berlin. This revised edition provided an excellent introduction to Berlin's thought. Ramin Jahanbegloo is an Iranian philosopher, who has taught in Europe and North America. In 2006 he was imprisoned for several months in Iran. He is currently teaching Political Philosophy at Toronto University. 'Though like Our Lord and Socrates he does not publish much, he thinks and says a great deal and has had an enormous influence on our times'. Maurice Bowra 'Berlin never talks down to the interviewer. Conversations here means the minds of the interviewed and interviewer meet on equal terms in language that is transparently clear, informed, witty and entertaining'. Stephen Spender 'He is wise without seeming pompous, witty without seeming trivial, affectionate without seeming sentimental'. Michael Ignatieff 'Isaiah Berlin... has for fifty years in this talkative and quarrelsome city (Oxford) been something special, admired by all and disliked by no-one... a benevolent super-don'. John Bayley http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/
Book Synopsis Sophoclean Tragedy by : Cecil Maurice Bowra
Download or read book Sophoclean Tragedy written by Cecil Maurice Bowra and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Virginia Woolf by : Frances Spalding
Download or read book Virginia Woolf written by Frances Spalding and published by National Portrait Gallery. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 10 July to 26 October 2014.
Download or read book Complete Poems written by Bacchylides and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovered in an Egyptian papyrus in 1896, the lyrics of Bacchylides are one of the great treasures of Greek poetry. These exquisite choral odes celebrate victories in the Pythian, Isthmian, Nemean, and Olympic games and chronicle the classical gods and heroes, eloquently revealing to us the spirit and world of Golden Age Greece. The poems are brilliantly translated by Robert Fagles, recently hailed by Garry Wills in the New Yorker as "the best living translator of ancient Greek drama, lyric poetry, and epic into modern English." First published in 1961, the book now includes a new translator's note by Fagles. " Fagles] has produced a work which is at once a faithful translation of Bacchylides in the fullest sense and something which stands and lives in its own right as a work of art."--Sir Maurice Bowra, from the Foreword "Fagles has created . . . a musical and craftsmanly series of verses. As a translator, Fagles has the merits of . . . keeping the lilting rhythms of Bacchylides alive in one's ear . . . and unearthing metaphors behind faded Greek words, of splitting the strings of compound adjectives into pungent clauses which lose nothing in color but make coordinated English."--Emily Vermeule, American Journal of Philology "The beauty, richness, and classic quality of Mr. Fagles's unrhymed verse make this translation a creative work and a valuable contribution to English letters."--Rae Dalven, Poetry
Book Synopsis Ernst Kantorowicz by : Robert E. Lerner
Download or read book Ernst Kantorowicz written by Robert E. Lerner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first complete biography of an influential historian whose dramatic life intersected with many great events and thinkers of the twentieth century This is the first complete biography of Ernst Kantorowicz (1895–1963), an influential German-American medieval historian whose colorful life intersected with many of the great events and thinkers of his time. Born into a wealthy Prussian-Jewish family, he fought in World War I—earning an Iron Cross and an Iron Crescent—before being sent home following an affair with a general’s mistress. Though he was an ardent German nationalist during the Weimar period, after the Nazis came to power he bravely spoke out against the regime before an overflowing crowd in Frankfurt. He narrowly avoided arrest after Kristallnacht, fleeing to England and then the United States, where he joined the faculty at Berkeley, only to be fired in 1950 for refusing to sign an anticommunist “loyalty oath.” From there, he “fell up the ladder” to Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, where he wrote his masterwork, The King’s Two Bodies. Drawing on many new sources, including numerous interviews and unpublished letters, Robert E. Lerner tells the story of a major intellectual whose life and times were as fascinating as his work.
