Poems for Christmas

Produktbeschreibung

Poems for Christmas is an exquisitely produced gift anthology which is guaranteed to get anyone in the festive spirit.

Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an introduction by Judith Flanders, author of Christmas: A Biography.

Through the generations, poets from William Shakespeare to Thomas Hardy and from John Donne to Christina Rossetti have been inspired to celebrate the Christmas season in verse. Just as we cherish our Christmas traditions now, so many of the great poets wrote beautifully about the Christmas story, magical wintry landscapes, festive traditions and making merry. And then, of course, there are the much-loved songs and carols from around the world that we still sing today, many of which are included in this enchanting anthology. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 

Autoreninfo

Gaby Morgan is an Associate Publisher at Macmillan Children's Books and has run the children's poetry list for thirty years. She has compiled many bestselling anthologies including Read Me and Laugh: A Funny Poem for Every Day of the Year, Poems from the First World War, Fairy Poems - which was short-listed for the CLPE Award - and the Macmillan Collector's Library poetry series featuring anthologies on Happiness, Nature, Childhood, Travelling and Christmas.Judith Flanders is the author of several critically acclaimed and bestselling books: A Circle of Sisters (2001), which was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award; The Invention of Murder (2001), shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-fiction; The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed(2003); The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London (2012), shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times History Book of the Year; The Making of Home (2014), Christmas: A History (2017) and A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order (2020). In her copious leisure time, she also writes the Sam Clair series of comic crime novels.