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1948 Total Pp. 12mo. New York. Publisher's blue cloth hardcovers, gilt/color illustrated title on spine and front covers, leaf edges gilt atop-sides deckled-bottom smooth, color frontispieces, illustrated text, glassine wraps. Titles (Publication Year). Edition. Pages. The Blue Flower (1902). 1st edition. 298 p. Fisherman's Luck (1908). New edition. 285 p. Little Rivers (1903). Latter edition. 348 p. The Unknown Quantity (1912). 1st edition. 370 p. Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land (1908). 1st edition. 325 p. Days Off (1907). 1st edition. 322 p. Measures: 1.5 W x 5.25 d x 7.75 H inches each volume. About the author: Van Dyke 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. (Wiki). Literary Legacy: Various religious themes of his work are 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. 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. (This is the original poem; some versions have "Eternity" in place of "not.") The poem inspired the song "Time Is" by the group It's a Beautiful Day on their eponymous 1969 debut album. Another interpretation of the poem is a song entitled "Time" by Mark Masri (2009). In 2003, the same section of the poem was chosen for a memorial in Grosvenor Square, London, dedicated to British victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The poem is also used as the closing of the 2013 novel Child of Time, by Bob Johnson. CONDITION NOTES: Very good; light wear not commensurate with age and use (e.g. (1) spine cover moderately sunned, sporadic wear at extremities, light age-toned text/illustration pages, lightly rubbed glassine wraps), strong square spines/tight bindings. A nice collection.
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