Delighted to See Himself
Stefan Collini: Maurice Bowra, 12 February 2009
Maurice Bowra: A Life
by Leslie Mitchell.
Oxford, 385 pp., £25, February 2009,978 0 19 929584 5 Show More
by Leslie Mitchell.
Oxford, 385 pp., £25, February 2009,
“... not as though the inner circle of his admirers was composed of dummies: Berlin, Betjeman, Kenneth Clark, John Sparrow, as well as, a little later, Noel Annan and Stuart Hampshire – all capable of the odd spot of talking themselves. But they acknowledged Bowra as their master, which was fortunate since no other terms were ... ”