A NEW ZEALANDER IN OXFORD: GEORGE CAWKWELL IN HIS OWN WORDS - Couverture souple

Cawkwell, George

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798818548753

Editeur : Independently published, 2022

Synopsis

George Cawkwell (1919-2019) was a fellow of University College, Oxford for seventy years. Arriving at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar from New Zealand where he had spent the first 26 years of his life, he became an Oxford insitution of a kind. He made a notable contribution to the study of the history of Ancient Greece, but more importantly as a college tutor he devoted himself to the welfare of both undergraduates and graduates. He served the college community in a number of posts, becoming Vice Master from 1980 to 1985, and even after retiring worked with his accumulated knowledge of generations of students to raise funds for the College.

He had a gift for lively conversation, for making speeches, and for letter-writing. When he died in 2019 he left a considerable number of unpublished papers in the form of an abandoned autobiography, addresses of various kinds, and a large number of letters. Supplemented by material from two long interviews he gave in the 2000s, this book gives a vivid portrait of an individual with vigorous, maverick even, views about the world, always expressed in an interesting manner, but above all one with an abiding love of Oxford University as an institution, and of his chosen subject of Ancient History. The maverick quality derives from his New Zealand background, his sic omnes ego non / 'as all think, I don't' quality of thought, and the vigour of his writing and speech from his love of English language and literature, and from his study of Greek and Latin literature.

As pre-war New Zealand and post-war Oxford recede into the past this book is a work of memory of that past and of its value as a civilized world, a memory of - in his words - 'the loveliness of life'.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798818548753
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Éditeur: Cawkwell Tim
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