The man behind the book : essays in understanding [Lights in poetry -- Problematic natures in English literature -- Four noteworthy modern novels.] Hardcover - 1929

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929, 1929. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. xi, 357 pages, [8] leaves of plates : portraits ; 20 cm LCCN: 29-21279 ; LC: PR99; Dewey: 809 ; OCLC: 596932 ; ; decorated blue cloth ; no dustjacket ; Contents : Lights in poetry -- Problematic natures in English literature -- Four noteworthy modern novels. ; Binding is similar to those designed by Margaret Armstrong, but it is signed E.L.F ; Dark blue (C183) calico grain cloth; gold, purple, and aqua grape vines, clusters, and tulips, gold lettering, signed "ELF."; motif repeated on spine in gold; partially untrimmed. ; Van Dyke was a professor of English literature at Princeton between 1899 and 1923. In 1908-09 he was an American lecturer at the University of Paris. By appointment of President Wilson, a friend and former classmate of van Dyke, he became Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg. ;"The thirteen essays contain penetrating and well-seasoned studies of the work and personalities of literary figures from Chaucer to Thornton Wilder" ; authors include Thomas Hardy Thornton Wilder, Willa Cather, William Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Edgar Lee Masters, Poe, Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Carlyle, Byron, George Meredith and Walt Whitman ; foxing ; VG.