Henry Van Dyke

Broschiertes Buch

Little Rivers

Beschreibung

Little Rivers is a collection of personal essays that celebrate the joys of fly fishing, solitude, and communion with nature along quiet streams in North America and Europe. With lyrical prose and philosophical undertones, the author uses his experiences on the water to reflect on patience, humility, and the restorative power of the natural world. Each chapter blends gentle humor, scenic detail, and meditative insight, offering readers not only a travelogue of rivers fished but a deeper meditation on how nature shapes the human spirit.

Autor

Henry Jackson van Dyke Jr. (1852 - 1933) was an American author, educator and 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). One of van Dyke's best-known poems is titled "Time Is" (Music and Other Poems, 1904), also known as "For Katrina's Sundial" because it was composed to be an inscription on a sundial in the garden of an estate owned by his friends Spencer and Katrina Trask. The second section of the poem, which was read at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, reads as follows: "Time is Too slow for those who Wait, Too swift for those who Fear, Too long for those who Grieve, Too short for those who Rejoice, But for those who Love, Time is not."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wildside Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 437g
• ISBN-13: 9781434489920
• ISBN-10: 1434489922
• Artikelnr.: 23201318