Henry van Dyke Jr., drawn from a lifetime of output that stretched from the 1870s into the 1920s. His poems capture the breadth of his existence—both the outward man and the inner one—shifting seamlessly from odes to the raw beauty of the American wilderness to meditations steeped in unyielding Christian conviction. A substantial portion of the collection comprises the rousing patriotic pieces he penned while serving as a U.S. envoy in Europe, as the guns of the Great War began to thunder.
Born in 1852 and gone by 1933, van Dyke cut a towering figure in American letters and public life: a bestselling novelist, a steadfast Presbyterian..." data-title="Книга Poetry">