Maurice bowra from sophoclean tragedy

This book is famous and influential in the history of Sophoclean criticism; it's in the bibliography of every other book I've read on Sophocles.

  • Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra was an English classical scholar and academic, known for his wit.
  • Sophoclean Tragedy.
  • Bibliographic information ; Author, Cecil Maurice Bowra ; Publisher, Clarendon Press, 1944 ; ISBN, 0198810962, 9780198810964 ; Length, 384 pages.
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    Maurice Bowra

    English classical scholar, literary critic and academic (–)

    Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra, CH, FBA (; 8 April – 4 July ) was an English classical scholar, literary critic and academic, known for his wit.

    He was Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, from to , and served as vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford from to

    Early life and education

    Birth and boyhood

    Bowra was born in Jiujiang, China, to English parents.[2] His father, Cecil Arthur Verner Bowra (–), who worked for the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs,[3] had been born in Ningbo,[4] and his paternal grandfather, Edward Charles Bowra, had also worked for the Chinese Customs, after serving in the Ever Victorious Army under "Chinese Gordon".[5] Soon after Bowra's birth his father was transferred to the treaty port of Niuzhuang, and the family lived there for the first five years of Bowra's life,[6] except during the Boxer Rebellion, in the summer