Gaby Morgan

Poems for Christmas

Herausgeber: Morgan, Gaby

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Produktbeschreibung

A joyful anthology of Christmas poems and songs with an introduction by Judith Flanders, author of Christmas: A Biography.

Produktdetails

• Macmillan Collector's Library
• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 153mm x 96mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 152g
• ISBN-13: 9781035049110
• ISBN-10: 1035049112
• Artikelnr.: 70010896

Autorenporträt

Judith Flanders is the author of the bestselling The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed; A Circle of Sisters, which was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award; the New York Times bestselling The Invention of Murder, shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-fiction; The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London, shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times History Book of the Year; The Making of Home; and Christmas: A Biography. In her leisure time, she also writes the Sam Clair series of comic crime novels.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
i: Introduction Unit
1: Christmas is Coming Poem
1: Christmas is Coming
Traditional Poem
2: A Christmas Blessing
Traditional Poem
3: Now Thrice Welcome, Christmas
Traditional Poem
4: Deck the Halls
Traditional Poem
5: We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Traditional Poem
6: Pudding Charms
Charlotte Druitt Cole Poem
7: The Christmas Pudding
Traditional Poem
8: Christmas Plum Pudding
Clifton Bingham Poem
9: A Dish for a Poet
Traditional Poem
10: Yule Log
Robert Herrick Poem
11: Minstrels
William Wordsworth Poem
12: Old Christmastide
Sir Walter Scott Poem
13: December
John Clare Poem
14: French Noel
William Morris Poem
15: Wassail, Wassail
Traditional Poem
16: Here We Come A
Wassailing
Traditional Poem
17: Nowell Sing We
Traditional Unit
2: I Sing of a Maiden Poem
1: I Sing of a Maiden
Traditional Poem
2: A Virgin Most Pure
Traditional Poem
3: The Mother of God
W. B. Yeats Poem
4: The Cherry Tree Carol
Traditional Poem
5: Joseph
G. K. Chesterton Poem
6: The Angel Gabriel
Traditional tr. Sabine Baring
Gould Poem
7: Once in Royal David's City
Cecil Frances Alexander Poem
8: O Little Town of Bethlehem
Phillips Brooks Poem
9: Away in a Manger
Traditional Poem
10: The Old Hark
Traditional Poem
11: Angels, from the Realms of Glory
James Montgomery Poem
12: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Charles Wesley Poem
13: A Hymn for Christmas Day
Traditional Poem
14: Joy to the World!
Isaac Watts Poem
15: In Dulci Jubilo
Traditional Poem
16: Christmas, A Song of Joy at Dawn
Traditional Poem
17: O Come, All Ye Faithful
Traditional tr. F. Oakeley and W. T. Brooke Unit
3: Peace and Lullabies Poem
1: Peace
Henry Vaughan Poem
2: A Child this Day is Born
Traditional Poem
3: Silent Night
Joseph Mohr tr. John Freeman Young Poem
4: Christus Natus Est
Countee Cullen Poem
5: On Christmas Day to My Heart
Clement Paman Poem
6: An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour
Robert Herrick Section
7: The House of Christmas
G. K. Chesterton Poem
8: The Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
Christopher Smart Poem
9: New Prince, New Pomp
Robert Southwell Poem
10: Past Three O'Clock
George Ratcliffe Woodward Poem
11: Love Came Down at Christmas
Christina Rossetti Poem
12: Before the Paling of the Stars
Christina Rossetti Poem
13: The Coventry Carol
Traditional Poem
14: A Cradle Song
William Blake Poem
15: The Rocking Carol
Percy Dearmer Poem
16: Infant Holy
Traditional tr. Edith M.G. Reed Poem
17: Sing Lullaby
Sabine Baring
Gould Poem
18: Welcome to Heaven's King
Traditional Poem
19: Hymn for Christmas Day
John Byrom Poem
20: It Was on Christmas Day
Traditional Poem
21: I Saw a Stable
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Unit
4: Holly and Ivy Poem
1: Holly
Christina Rossetti Poem
2: Advent
Christina Rossetti Poem
3: Green Grow'th the Holly
Traditional Poem
4: Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming
Traditional tr. Theodore Baker and Harriet R. K. Spaeth Poem
5: The Mahogany Tree
William Makepeace Thackeray Poem
6: The Holly and the Ivy
Traditional Poem
7: The First Tree in the Greenwood
Traditional Unit
5: Bird and Beasts Poem
1: Eddi's Service
Rudyard Kipling Poem
2: The Oxen
Thomas Hardy Poem
3: Sheep in Winter
John Clare Poem
4: While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
Nahum Tate Poem
6: Go, Tell it on the Mountain
Traditional Poem
7: The Shepherds' Carol
Traditional Poem
8: Out in the Dark
Edward Thomas Poem
9: Birds at Winter Nightfall
Thomas Hardy Poem
10: Little Robin Redbreast
Traditional Unit
6: Snow and Ice Poem
1: Christmas Night
Traditional Poem
2: The First Nowell
Traditional Poem
3: Snow Storm
John Clare Poem
4: See, Amid the Winter's Snow
Edward Caswall Poem
5: A Winter Night
William Barnes Section
6: Winter Gerard
Manley Hopkins Poem
7: Winter
Time
Robert Louis Stevenson Poem
8: Snow Edward Thomas Poem
9: from As You Like It
William Shakespeare Poem
10: Up in the Morning Early
Robert Burns Poem
11: In Tenebris
Ford Madox Ford Poem
12: In the Bleak Midwinter
Christina Rossetti Poem
13: It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Edmund Hamilton Sears Poem
14: Snow in the Suburbs
Thomas Hardy Poem
15: from The Prelude
William Wordsworth Poem
16: from Frost at Midnight
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poem
17: A Frosty Day
Lord de Tabley Poem
18: Ice on the Highway
Thomas Hardy Poem
19: Now Winter Nights Enlarge
Thomas Campion Unit
7: Nativity Poem
1: Christmas
George Herbert Poem
2: The Nativity
Henry Vaughan Poem
3: Nativity
John Donne Poem
4: Upon Christ His Birth
Sir John Suckling Poem
5: Noel: Christmas Eve, 1913
Robert Bridges Poem
6: from In Memoriam
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem
7: Christmas Eve
Christina Rossetti Unit
8: The Earthly Paradise Poem
1: from The Earthly Paradise
William Morris Poem
2: God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
Traditional Poem
3: Carol
Ben Jonson Poem
4: Christmas at Sea
Robert Louis Stevenson Poem
5: Christmas in India
Rudyard Kipling Poem
6: From East to West, From Shore to Shore
Traditional Unit
9: Kings Poem
1: The Three Kings
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem
2: We Three Kings
John Henry Hopkins Poem
3: As With Gladness Men of Old
William Chatterton Dix Poem
4: Good King Wenceslas
John Mason Neale Poem
5: The Mystic Magi Robert Stephen Hawker Poem
6: Kings Came Riding
Charles Williams Unit
10: I Saw Three Ships Poem
1: I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In
Traditional Poem
2: As I Sat on a Sunny Bank
Traditional Poem
3: To
morrow Shall Be My Dancing Day
Traditional Poem
4: The True Christmas
Henry Vaughan Poem
5: A Visit from St Nicholas
Clement Clarke Moore Poem
6: What Billy Wanted
Traditional Poem
7: A Little Christmas Card
Traditional Poem
8: The Twelve Days of Christmas
Traditional Unit
11: New Year Poem
1: Another Christmas Gone
Traditional Poem
2: The Old Year
John Clare Poem
3: The New Year
Traditional Poem
4: New Year
Christopher Smart Poem
5: The New Year
Traditional Poem
5: Auld Lang Syne
Robert Burns Poem
6: Ring Out, Wild Bells
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem
7: Farewell Old Year
Traditional Poem
8: New Every Morning
Susan Coolidge Poem
9: The Year
Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poem
10: from The Tempest
William Shakespeare Index
ii: Index of Poets Index
iii: Index of Titles Index
iv: Index of First Lines