Bowra, (Cecil) Maurice (1898–1971)

British scholar, born in China, appointed professor of poetry at Oxford University in 1946, and vice chancellor from 1951 to 1954. He was an accomplished classical scholar with a wide knowledge of many literatures and was also a gifted writer and translator.

Among his works are Greek Lyric Poetry (1936), Early Greek Elegists (1938), A Book of Russian Verse (1943), The Heritage of Symbolism (1943), Sophoclean Tragedy (1943), From Vergil to Milton (1945), The Romantic Imagination (1950), Inspiration and Poetry (1955), Pindar (1964), Memories, 1898–1939 (1966) (an autobiography), and On Greek Margins (1970).