Papers pertaining to Rex Warner.

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Papers pertaining to Rex Warner.

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The Papers pertaining to Rex Warner include a copy of Greek Horizons to which Rex Warner was a contributor, an envelope with newspaper clippings and a typed copy of highlights relating to Rex Warner in French, a typed draft of "Prometheus Bound" written by Rex Warner, and an original drawing for the cover of Rex Warner's "Men of Stones" by Holland. Rex Warner graduated from Oxford, was an English author who wrote allegories concerning problems with power as well as well as historical novels, and a classical scholar noted for his translations to Greek and Latin. He was born in 1905 in England and died in 1986.

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Warner, Rex, 1905-1986

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Rex Warner was born in Birmingham and was raised in the bucolic splendour of the Cotswold Hills, his father a clergyman, his mother a teacher. Winning a scholarship to Oxford, Warner developed an odd mix of intellectual intensity and rugged rusticism, which would inform his writing throughout his life. Popular with critics but seldom with the public, a central theme of his writing is man as a political entity, exemplified by his celebrated novels of Classical Rome and Greece. From th...