WICKSTEED, Philip Henry.

Dante – Six Sermons.

London, C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1879. 8vo, pp. vi, [1] contents, [1] blank, 158 + final blank + 32-page publisher’s catalogue; first two leaves a little dust-soiled and ragged; original publisher’s cloth, stained and cockled, spine direct-lettered gilt, darkened, recased; a reading copy. First edition of Wicksteed’s sermons on Dante. ‘When Wicksteed, in 1888, delivered the four lectures on Ibsen, he was already well known, if not to entirely the same audience, as an interpreter of Dante … Dante became a chief preoccupation for more than forty years … To the modern educated and Protestant Englishman, the great Catholic poet of the thirteenth century was, in general, a subject for respectful, but in every sense distant, homage, not of living concern. It was precisely from that sheltered remoteness, that empty prestige, and across those barriers of “enlightenment” and Protestantism, that Wicksteed, more signally than any other Englishman, drew Dante forth; to vindicate his enduring value as a living force in shaping and building up the soul of the modern man’ (Herford, Philip Henry Wicksteed, his life and work, p. 261).

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• Bestellnummer: H653.1

• Antiquariat: Bernard Quaritch Ltd. (GREAT BRITAIN)