Companionable books
By: by Henry Van Dyke ...
Publisher: C. Scribner's sons
Published: 1922
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism
Table of contents: value: The Book of books.  Poetry in the Psalms.  The good enchantment of Dickens.  Thackeray and real men.  George Eliot and real women.  The poet of immortal youth (Keats)  The recovery of joy (Wordsworth)  "The glory of the imperfect" (Browning)  A quaint comrade by quiet streams (Walton)  A sturdy believer (Samuel Johnson)  A Puritan plus poetry (Emerson)  An adventurer in a velvet jacket (Stevenson)