Van Dyke, Henry

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Van Dyke, Henry (1852-1933), was an American Presbyterian clergyman, educator, novelist, essayist, poet, and religious writer. His writing is delicate, vivid, and full of idealism, as in his Companionable Books (1922). He also wrote The Poetry of Tennyson (1889) and many other works. Van Dyke was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania.

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