dedication copy
BOWRA, C. M.
Heroic Poetry.
London, Macmillan, 1952.
'He loved the sun, the sea, the warmth, light, and hated the cold and darkness, physical and intellectual, moral, political. All his life he liked freedom, individuality, independence, and detested everything that seemed to him to cramp and constrict the forces of human vitality[...] His passion for the Mediterranean and its cultures was of a piece with this: he loved pleasure, exuberance, the richest fruits of nature and civilisation, the fullest expression of human feeling, uninhibited by a Machinean sense of guilt. Consequently he had little sympathy for those who recoiled from the forces of life - cautious, calculating conformists, or those who seemed to him prigs or prudes who winced at high vitality or passion, and were too easily shocked by vehemence and candour.'
Bowra had a powerful influence on Berlin and a very deep and lifelong friendship resulted. Berlin, however, admitted that 'I did love him much more - towards the end - than I respected him'.
First edition; 8vo; the dedication copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper, 'Isaiah from Maurice'; red cloth with gilt title to spine, with the original dust jacket, spine faded, minor stains to back, a very good copy.
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