The Good Enchantment of Charles Dickens E-Book

Henry van Dyke

• Herausgeber: Edizioni Aurora Boreale
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Beschreibung

Henry Jackson Van Dyke (1852-1933) was an American writer, poet, educator, diplomat, and Presbyterian clergyman.
Among his popular writings are the two Christmas stories, The Other Wise Man (1896) and The First Christmas Tree (1897). Various religious themes of his work are also expressed in his poetry, hymns and the essays collected in Little Rivers (1895) and Fisherman’s Luck (1899). He wrote the lyrics to the popular hymn Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee (1907), sung to the tune of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. He compiled several short stories in The Blue Flower (1902), named after the key symbol of Romanticism introduced first by Novalis. He also contributed a chapter to the collaborative novel, The Whole Family (1908).
The short Van Dyke’s essay The Good Enchantment of Charles Dickens was published in 1912 on the Scribner’s Magazine. It is a writing in which Van Dyke manages to capture all the spirituality and enchantment that the great British writer Charles Dickens was able to convey in his works.
«Ah, master of the good enchantment, you have given us hours of ease and joy, and we thank you for them. But there is a greater gift than that. You have made us more willing to go cheerfully and comradely along the strange, crowded, winding way of human life, because you have deepened our faith that there is something of the divine on earth, and something of the human in heaven».

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SYMBOLS & MYTHS

HENRY VAN DYKE

THE GOOD ENCHANTMENT

OF CHARLES DICKENS

Edizioni Aurora Boreale

Title: The good enchantment of Charles Dickens

Author: Henry Van Dyke

Publishing series: Symbols & Myths

Editing by Nicola Bizzi

ISBN: 979-12-5504-113-9

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INTRODUCTION BY THE PUBLISHER

Henry Jackson Van Dyke (1852-1933) was an American writer, poet, educator, diplomat, and Presbyterian clergyman.

He was born on November 10, 1852, in Germantown, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Henry Jackson Van Dyke Sr. (1822-1891), a prominent Brooklyn Presbyterian clergyman known in the antebellum years for his anti-abolitionist views. The family traced its roots to Jan Thomasse Van Dijk, who emigrated from Holland to North America in 1652.

The younger Henry Van Dyke graduated from Poly Prep Country Day School in 1869, Princeton University, in 1873 and from Princeton Theological Seminary, 1877. Then served as a professor of English literature at Princeton between 1899 and 1923. Among the many students whom he influenced was, notably, future celebrity travel writer Richard Halliburton, Editor-in-Chief, at the time, of the Princeton Pictorial. In 1908-09 was a lecturer at the University of Paris. Two years before, in 1906, Van Dyke chaired the committee that wrote the first Presbyterian printed liturgy, The Book of Common Worship.