Maurice Bowra
Born: April 8, 1898
Died: July 4, 1972 (aged 74)
Bio: Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra 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.
Known for:
- The romantic imagination (1949)
- Greek experience (1957)
- Early Greek elegists (1938)
- Greek lyric poetry from Alcman to Simonides (1936)
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