Companionable books
By: by Henry Van Dyke
Publisher: C. Scribner's Sons
Published: 1923
Place of publication: New York
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 of immortal 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)