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	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion
		Maurice Bowra was one of those characters who added colour to the stones of Oxford from the Twenties till the Sixties.
		Maurice Bowra was a distinguished classicist of his generation but that achievement, the many honours he won, and the positions he held, do not adequately describe the impact he had on at least two generations of Oxford undergraduates and dons.
		No one was more Oxonian than Bowra, but he mocked the ancient university?s traditions and he cocked a snook at many of its practices.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1060303/asp/opinion/story_5913645.asp (534 words)

	Maurice Bowra -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra (April 8, 1898 – July 4, 1971) was an English classical scholar, teacher, and (A message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter) wit.
		He was born in (additional info and facts about Kiukiang) Kiukiang, (A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world) China to English parents and educated at (additional info and facts about Cheltenham College) Cheltenham College.
		In his long career as an Oxford don, Bowra had contact with a considerable portion of the English literary world, either as students or as colleagues.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/maurice_bowra.htm (375 words)

	AllRefer.com - C. M. Bowra (English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Bowra, English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biographies
		Bowra (Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra)[bou´ru] Pronunciation Key, 1898–1971, English classical scholar, b.
		Although he wrote and edited books in many areas of literature, Bowra is particularly known for his studies of ancient Greek poetry and culture.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Bowra-CM.html (196 words)

	The Oxonian Review of Books
		Bowra, Warden of Wadham College between 1938 and 1970, was a keen writer of verse and composed a large number of satirical and parodic poems, which imagine, at great length, the various sexual combinations of most of his intimates, from John Betjeman to Kenneth Clark, from Isaiah Berlin to Rosamund Lehmann.
		Berlin and [John] Sparrow had started making notes on them, identifying various people referred to, sometimes obliquely, by Bowra; they had it in mind to annotate the text sufficiently to make the poems comprehensible to readers not already able to understand the many allusions they contain—allusions which are becoming increasingly obscure as time goes by.
		Hardy’s claim that Bowra’s ‘versification is often exhilarating’ is a gross overstatement.
	www.oxonianreview.org /issues/5-2/5-2womack.html (1134 words)

	bats
		Maurice Bowra’s famous ribald satires on his contemporaries
		Maurice Bowra’s notoriously scabrous satirical poems on his contemporaries have long been the subject of gossip, mostly based on glimpses of small specimens.
		The playwright Julian Mitchell, as an undergraduate at Wadham College in the 1950s, came to know the author well during Bowra’s long Wardenship, and provides a perceptive introduction to this long hidden department of his œuvre – one which, some think, may well be remembered for longer than his more ‘serious’ works.
	www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk /~hardy/dugpubs/bats.html (348 words)

	V.Isvarmurti » My Oxford-day intellectuals and scholars
		Bowra was one in England who knew Russian and it was a pleasure to get the acquaintance of Pasternak’s moving poetry through such a great scholar.
		The oration ranged from Homer to modern poets and in between Bowra, I remember also brought in the name of Dom Moraes, my friend, who had just then won a great prize and as such Bowra had all praise for the young Indian and he let me go only after a long conversation.
		Bowra was also Vice-Chancellor of Oxford and also the President of British Academy, great honours for any academic scholar.
	www.isvarmurti.com /2007/02/26/my-oxford-day-intellectuals-and-scholars-2 (3007 words)

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	A Don in the World - The New York Review of Books
		When I was twenty, I was more scared of 'Maurice Bowra' than I have been of any other human being before or since.
		To the youth I then was, uncertain of himself, gauche, shy, and, therefore, brash, he embodied all those qualities, social poise, elegance, wit, worldliness, which I most longed to possess and despaired of ever possessing.
		For an intellectual undergraduate of my generation--in those days we were called aesthetes--to belong to 'Maurice's' circle was to be 'in.' I was not 'in,' but dearly wished I could be.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/13794 (452 words)

	Masters of a Small Universe - New York Times
		Maurice Bowra filled many pages of ''Our Age,'' but he is brought back for an even longer (and fonder) appearance here, despite the malicious wit for which Bowra was famous.
		But he says that Bowra was the cause of scholarship in others, a defender of literature from all ages, a builder of academic friendships, an opponent of stultifying routine.
		The academically safe appointment procedures he fought are perfectly described by Annan: ''At the moment of choice the scrupulous quaver.
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	Seating a Poet - TIME
		Behind Lowell, the favorite at 6-4 and acknowledged the better poet of the two candidates, is Wadham College Warden Sir Maurice Bowra, who himself held the chair from 1946 to 1951.
		Bowra launched his campaign for Lowell last fall, after making, he claims, a gentleman's agreement with Blunden Backer Dr. Enid Starkie to limit the number of nominating signatures for each candidate.
		"She cheated me!" roared Bowra, when the flamboyant Miss Starkie, whose trademark is red underwear and a French sailor's hat, turned up with 301 names for Blunden to Bowra's 36 for Lowell.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,842460,00.html (580 words)

	LitWeb - Writing about Literature
		According to Maurice Bowra, Creon’s arrogance is his downfall.
		However prideful Antigone may occasionally seem, Bowra insists that Creon is genuinely, deeply, and consistently so (2108).
		For Bowra, Creon is the prototypical "proud man" (2107); where Antigone’s arrogance is only "apparent," Creon’s is all too "real" (2108).
	www.wwnorton.com /litweb/writing/35-4.asp (1097 words)

	Why no Literary Relics from Five Centuries?
		The Dark Ages left no literary remains, not even a single word on a sherd or a few characters on a clay tablet.
		Bowra expresses his wonder at “this astounding state of affairs.” It “undermines any hope that the transmission of heroic poetry was maintained by a succession of written texts from the time of the Trojan War.”
		Sir Maurice Bowra, Homer and His Forerunners (Edinburgh, 1955) pp.
	www.varchive.org /dag/relit.htm (604 words)

	Complete Poems
		Bacchylides, Translated by Robert Fagles; Foreword by Sir Maurice Bowra; Introduction and Notes by Adam M. Parry
		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.
		He received the PEN/Ralph Mannheim Medal for Translation in 1997 and an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1996.
	yalepress.yale.edu /yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300075529 (283 words)

	Sir Isaiah Berlin - Bibliography
		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, in a letter written to Noel Annan in 1971, when Berlin was appointed to the Order of Merit.
		See Noel Annan, ‘A Man I Loved’, in Hugh Lloyd-Jones (ed.), Maurice Bowra: A Celebration (London, 1974), p.
	berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk /lists/bibliography (269 words)

	languagehat.com: RIP JOHN SIMMONS.
		Simmons’s proudest achievements were his part in building up the retrospective collections of Russian books in the Taylorian and Bodleian libraries and the creation in Bodley of the only specialised Slavonic reading room in the country.
		He considered, with justification, that it was these library collections, together with the remarkable group of Russian academic teachers recruited by Konovalov, Maurice Bowra and Isaiah Berlin, that led to the establishment of Oxford as a unique centre for Slavonic studies...
		At All Souls, which became his second home, he was a genial host, an inspiring guide, and a fount of knowledge on college history, Oxford’s libraries, and a host of other subjects which he gladly put at the disposal of resident and visiting Fellows.
	www.languagehat.com /archives/002140.php (338 words)

	Bristol Phoenix Press — Classic Translations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		His introductions and notes are also included, because it is in them that he sets out his distinctive view of each play, his prefatory points driven home in the subsequent annotations.
		James Morwood's Introduction to the volume sets the translations in their context; and an Appendix gives the (hitherto unpublished) parody of them written by Murray's former student and friend Maurice Bowra.
		James Morwood is Dean of Wadham College, Oxford, translator of eleven of Euripides' plays in the World Classics Series, author of numerous Greek and Latin language books and of The Life and Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1985).
	www.bristolphoenixpress.co.uk /classic_trans.html (331 words)

	Cecil M. Bowra - Penguin Classics Authors - Penguin Classics
		Cecil M. Bowra - Penguin Classics Authors - Penguin Classics
		Sir Maurice Bowra studied Greek at Oxford under Gilbert Murray and gained first class honors.
		In 1922 he became tutor and fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, and in 1938 he was made Warden, a post which he retained until his death in 1971.
	us.penguinclassics.com /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,10_1000004254,00.html (160 words)

	Maurice Bowra : Oxford Biography Index entry
		Bowra, Sir (Cecil) Maurice (1898–1971), classical scholar and university administrator
		Oxford Biography Index Number 101030841 [what is this?
		Mitchell, ‘Bowra, Sir (Cecil) Maurice (1898–1971)’, first published Sept 2004; online edn, May 2005, 2310 words, with portrait illustration
	www.oxforddnb.com /index/101030841 (86 words)

	Bowra, C. M. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
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	Sir Maurice Bowra (1898-1971), Classical scholar and writer
		Sir Maurice Bowra; Sylvester Govett Gates; Leslie Poles ('L.P.') Hartley
		Sir Maurice Bowra; Sylvester Govett Gates; Igor Vinogradoff; Leslie Poles ('L.P.') Hartley; Kyrle Leng
		The online database contains information on 96,792 works, 51,382 of which are illustrated; the National Portrait Gallery's collection includes over 330,000 works.
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	MEMORIES
		Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1967 Black cloth hardcover, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2, 369pp, ex lib in VG- condition, cocked, with VG DJ in Brodart.
		Autobiography of Maurice Bowra, former Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, a famous and much talked-a bout figure from between-the-wars Oxford.
		Returns accepted for any reason within 15 days of receipt, in condition received, less return postage.
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	NPG Ax141572; Sir Maurice Bowra; Rosamond Rose
		7 of 14 portraits of Sir Maurice Bowra
		Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Dame Helen Gardner Bequest, 2003
		Sir Maurice Bowra (1898-1971), Classical scholar and writer.
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	Identity parade -Times Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
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		Sir, Mr Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor (letter, June 4) recounts how Maurice Bowra, the former Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, put his towel over his head instead of his loins to preserve his modesty when some ladies saw him and a companion bathing naked.
		Sir Kenneth Dover, the President of Corpus Christi, told me that one lady said to the other: “The one with the towel round his waist, I don’t know who that is, but the one with the towel round his face, that’s Bowra.”
	www.timesonline.co.uk /tol/comment/debate/letters/article1080386.ece (444 words)

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