Rex Warner papers, ca. 1945-1970.
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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...
