Description

Published 1910: Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated frontispiece

Original green embossed cloth with gilt titles on the spine. 115 very clean and bright pages, neat previous owners dedication poem written on the first free page dated Dec 13th, 1911. Slight shelf wear on covers consistent with age. (LP136)

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Henry van Dyke (1852-1933) was an American author, educator, and clergyman. He graduated from Princeton University, 1873, and from Princeton Theological Seminary, 1874 and served as a professor of English literature at Princeton between 1899 and 1923. In 1908-09 Dr. Van Dyke was an American lecturer at the University of Paris. By appointment of President Wilson he became Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg in 1913. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and received many other honors. He chaired the committee that wrote the first Presbyterian printed liturgy, The Book of Common Worship of 1906. Among his popular writings are the two Christmas stories The Other Wise Man (1896) and The First Christmas Tree (1897). Various religious themes of his work are also expressed in his poetry, hymns and the essays collected in Little Rivers (1895) and Fisherman's Luck (1899). He compiled several short stories in The Blue Flower named after a story by Novalis in 1902. He also contributed a chapter to the collaborative novel, The Whole Family (1908).

Reviews:
This is by far my favorite book of poems. I got it as a gift without knowing much anything about Henry Van Dyke. His poetry is exactly what I love to hear and read in poetry; the words roll off of your tongue and the blissful descriptions are so wonderfully put together. One of my new favorite books of all times. I can read it over and over.

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