In General And Particular (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed with inscription
Few scholars of the twentieth century commanded the breadth and authority of Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra, and In General and Particular stands as a testament to his formidable critical intelligence. This distinguished collection of essays presents Bowra's incisive commentary on a sweeping range of literary and cultural subjects, moving with characteristic ease from the ancient world to the modern, from Homer and Pindar to Pushkin and Yeats, illuminating each with the precision of a classical mind steeped in the full richness of Western civilisation. Bowra's prose is marked by a magisterial clarity and an enviable gift for synthesis, drawing together threads of poetry, history, and humanism into arguments that are both learned and deeply pleasurable to read. As Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, he occupied the very heart of mid-century intellectual life, and that centrality radiates from every page of this volume. Whether he is dissecting the nature of poetic inspiration or reflecting on the particularities of individual genius, Bowra leaves the reader with the compelling sense that literature is not merely an art form, but the very record of what it means to be human — a question he never ceases to press upon with urgency and wit.
Author: C. M. Bowra
Format: Hardback
Published: 1964, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Genre: Essays
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed with inscription
Few scholars of the twentieth century commanded the breadth and authority of Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra, and In General and Particular stands as a testament to his formidable critical intelligence. This distinguished collection of essays presents Bowra's incisive commentary on a sweeping range of literary and cultural subjects, moving with characteristic ease from the ancient world to the modern, from Homer and Pindar to Pushkin and Yeats, illuminating each with the precision of a classical mind steeped in the full richness of Western civilisation. Bowra's prose is marked by a magisterial clarity and an enviable gift for synthesis, drawing together threads of poetry, history, and humanism into arguments that are both learned and deeply pleasurable to read. As Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, he occupied the very heart of mid-century intellectual life, and that centrality radiates from every page of this volume. Whether he is dissecting the nature of poetic inspiration or reflecting on the particularities of individual genius, Bowra leaves the reader with the compelling sense that literature is not merely an art form, but the very record of what it means to be human — a question he never ceases to press upon with urgency and wit.