Description

A beautiful hardcover stocking-stuffer collecting the best-loved poems to celebrate the Christmas season, ranging from traditional religious poems to works by Emily Dickinson, Dorothy Parker, and Philip Larkin. AN EVERYMANS LIBRARY POCKET POET.

Christmas is both a holiday and a holy day, and from the start it has been associated with poetry, from the song of the seraphim above the manger to the cherished carols around the punch bowl. This garland of Christmas poems contains not only the ones you would insist on finding here (A Visit from St. Nicholas, Lo, How a Rose Eer Blooming, and The Twelve Days of Christmas among them) but such equally enchanting though lesser-known Yuletide treasures as:

The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman by Emily Dickinson
Christmas is Coming by Anthony Hecht
Christmas in India by Rudyard Kipling
Shepherds Song at Christmas by Langston Hughes
The Christmas Robin by Robert Graves
Office Party by Phyllis McGinley
The Maid-Servant at the Inn by Dorothy Parker
New Year Poem by Philip Larkin

Everymans Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.

Author: John Hollander
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Everymans Library
Published: 10/26/1999
Series: Everymans Library Pocket Poets
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 6.64h x 4.56w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780375407895
Language: English