Poetry

Born in 1852 and gone by 1933, van Dyke cut a towering figure in American letters and public life: a bestselling novelist, a steadfast Presbyterian minister, a Princeton professor, and a diplomat who rubbed shoulders with kings and presidents. While readers still cherish his heartwarming Christmas tales, like “The Other Wise Man,” it was his poetry that left his enduring mark on the world. This collection includes his crowning achievement, “Hymn of Joy” (better known by its first line “Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee”), as well as the poem “For Katrina’s Sun-Dial” (also known as “Time Is”), lines from which echoed through Westminster Abbey at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales.

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