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: Literature -- History and criticism; English literature -- History and criticism
Table of contents: title: The Book of books; title: Poetry in the Psalms; title: The good enchantment of Dickens; title: Thackeray and real men; title: George Eliot and real women; title: The poet of immortal youth (Keats); title: The recovery of joy (Wordsworth); title: "The glory of the imperfect" (Browning); title: A quaint comrade by quiet streams (Walton); title: A sturdy believer (Samuel Johnson); title: A Puritan plus poetry (Emerson); title: An adventurer in a velvet jacket (Stevenson)