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Title

• The Oxford book of Christmas poems / edited by Michael Harrison and Christopher Stuart-Clark.

Publication

Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1983.

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Additional Authors

• Harrison, Michael
• Harrison, Michael, 1939-
• Stuart-Clark, Christopher
• Stuart-Clark, Christopher.

Description

160 p. : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.

Summary

More than 100 poems, old and new, to celebrate the Christmas season.

Subject

• Christmas poetry
• English poetry

Genre/Form

Christmas poetry

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The coming of the cold / Theodore Roethke -- Winter days / Gareth Owen -- Sleet / Norman MacCaig -- Snowflakes / Clive Sansom -- Snow-bound / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Safe / James Walker -- December / John Clare -- Advent; a carol / Patric Dickinson -- December prayer to St. Nicholas / John Heath-Stubbs -- Advent 1955 / John Betjeman -- Christmas morn / Ruth Sawyer -- Joseph was an old man / Unknown -- In the town / Unknown -- Minstrel's song / Ted Hughes -- The innkeeper's wife / Clive Sansom -- Christmas landscape / Laurie Lee -- BC:AD / U.A. Fanthorpe -- O simplicitas / Madeleine L'Engle -- Carol / Norman Nicholson -- The mother's song / Eskimo.
• A cradle song / Charles Causley -- A Christmas hymn / Richard Wilbur -- A Christmas carol / G.K. Chesterton -- 'I saw a stable' / Mary Elizabeth Coleridge -- The oxen / Thomas Hardy -- The barn / Elizabeth Coatsworth -- Mice in the hay / Leslie Norris -- Angels' song / Charles Causley -- Carol of patience / Robert Graves -- Moonless darkness stands between / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- The shepherd's tale / James Kirkup -- The shepherd's dog / Leslie Norris -- Shepherds' carol / Norman Nicholson -- Christmas day / Andrew Young -- Sailor's carol / Charles Causley -- The carol of the poor children / Richard Middleton -- St. Stephen's day / Patric Dickinson -- The feast o'Saint Stephen / Ruth Sawyer.
• The feast of Stephen / Kevin Nichols -- Kings came riding / Charles Williams -- The wise men ask the children the way / Heinrich Heine -- Camels of the kings / Leslie Norris -- Journey of the magi / T.S. Eliot -- The adoration of the magi / Christopher Pilling -- The mystic magi / Robert Stephen Hawker -- The Huron carol / J. Edgar Middleton -- What the donkey saw / U.A. Fanthorpe -- A ballad of Christmas / Walter de la Mare -- The holy innocents / Robert Lowell -- Innocent's song / Charles Causley -- Clap your hands for Herod / Joseph Hanzlik -- Twelfth night / Peter Scupham.
• On the thirteenth day of Christmas / Charles Causley -- Carol for the last Christmas Eve / Norman Nicholson -- Wassailing song / Traditional -- Yule log / Robert Herrick -- Heap on more wood / Walter Scott -- Christmas shopping / Louis MacNeice -- The crib / Robert Finch -- Journey back to Christmas / Gwen Dunn -- Carol / W.R. Rodgers -- How to paint a perfect Christmas / Miroslav Holub -- Noel; Christmas Eve, 1913 / Robert Bridges -- Eddi's service / Rudyard Kipling -- For the children or the grown-ups? / Unknown -- My Christmas; Mum's christmas / Sarah Forsyth -- Christmas is really for the children / Steve Turner -- 'Hang up the baby's stocking!' / Unknown.
• A visit from St. Nicholas / Clement Clark Moore -- 'little tree' / e.e. cummings -- The Christmas tree / Patricia Beer -- Christmas tree / Stanley Cook -- Christmas tree / Laurence Smith -- Advice from poor robin's almanack -- Keeping Christmas / Eleanor Farjeon -- The reminder / Thomas Hardy -- Christmas; 1924 / Thomas Hardy -- 'Now every man at my request' -- December / John Clare -- Christmas card / Ted Hughes -- Ghost story / Dylan Thomas -- Christmas Eve / Patricia Beer -- Reindeer report / U.A. Fanthorpe -- Christmas night / Lawrence Sail -- Good will to men / Dorothy Brown Thompson -- Christmas bells / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Christmas day / Christopher Smart -- The burning babe / Robert Southwell -- Men may talk of country-Christmases / Philip Massinger.
• A dish for a poet / Traditional -- Christmas dinner / Michael Rosen -- The fire / Walter Scott -- In the workhouse / George R. Sims -- A summer Christmas in Australia / Douglas Sladen -- African Christmas -- John Press -- Pilgrims in Mexico / Traditional -- Roman presents / Martial -- Christmas 1970 / Spike Milligan -- Christmas / John Betjeman -- A child's Christmas day / unknown -- Afterthought / Elizabeth Jennings -- Christmas day / Roy Fuller -- Grandmother Jackson / David Jackson -- Christmas thank-you's / Mick Gowar -- A Roman thank-you letter / Martial -- Christmas bills / Joseph Hatton -- Christmas / Leigh Hunt.
• After Christmas / Michael Richards -- Well, so that is that / W.H. Auden -- The old year / John Clare -- The New Year / Unknown -- New Year Song / Ted Hughes -- January / Douglas Gibson -- January / John Heath-Stubbs -- February / John Heath-Stubbs -- Ceremony upon Candlemas Eve / Robert Herrick -- At Candlemas / Charles Causley -- Winter cricket / John Heath-Stubbs -- Snowdrops / George Macbeth -- The fight of the year / Roger McGough.

ISBN

0192760513

OCLC

12555667

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library