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