A literary Christmas.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christmas--Literary collections.

Christmas.

Christmas poetry.

Christmas stories.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Christmas stories.

Christmas poetry.

Christmas fiction.

Literature.

Physical Description:

151 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Literary Christmas : an anthology.

Place of Publication:

London : The British Library, 2018.

Summary:

"For as long as Christmas has been celebrated, poets and writers have sought to explore every aspect of it, whether the story of the Nativity, gatherings with family and friends, or the festive traditions that have grown up over the centuries. A Literary Christmas is a seasonal anthology collecting poems, short stories and prose extracts by some of the greatest poets and writers in the English language"--Jacket.

Contents:

Before Christmas. A visit from St Nicholas / Clement Clarke Moore

from The Feast of St Friend / Arnold Bennett

The gypsy / Edward Thomas

from Sons and lovers / D.H. Lawrence

from Cider with Rosie / Laurie Lee

from The River Duddon / William Wordsworth

from Wuthering Heights / Emily Bronte

from A Christmas Carol / Charles Dickens

The oxen / Thomas Hardy

Bertie's Christmas Eve / Saki

The Nativity. A Christmas carol / Christina Rossetti

from On the morning of Christ's Nativity / John Milton

from The Virgin Mary to the Child Jesus / Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A Christmas Carol / G.K. Chesterton

Nativity / John Donne

Christmas day. from his Diary / Samuel Pepys

Music on Christmas morning / Anne Bronte

from Orley Farm / Anthony Trollope

Christmas at sea / Robert Louis Stevenson

from The mill on the Floss / George Eliot

Christmas in India / Rudyard Kipling

The mistletoe bough / Thomas Haynes Bayly

from Christmas pudding / Nancy Mitford

Christmas fare. from "Old Christmas" in The sketch book of Washington Irving / Washington Irving

from A Christmas carol / Charles Dickens

Christmas husbandly fare, from Five hundred pointes of good husbandrie / Thomas Tusser

Talking turkeys!! / Benjamin Zephaniah

Another Christmas carol / P.G. Wodehouse

Christmas at war. Christmas bells / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A Christmas ghost-story / Thomas Hardy

A Christmas prayer / Cyril Winterbotham

The truce of Christmas / G.K. Chesterton

The holly on the wall / W.H. Davies

A child's Christmas. from A child's Christmas in Wales / Dylan Thomas

from The Wind in the Willows / Kenneth Grahame

The carol of the poor children / Richard Middleton

from Little Women / Louisa May Alcott

The lost boy / George Mackay Brown

Seasonal snow and ice. from his Diary / John Evelyn

from Trivia, or, The art of walking the streets of London / John Gay

from English hours / Henry James

from As you like it / William Shakespeare

from Emma / Jane Austen

The mahogany tree / William Makepeace Thackeray

from The Pickwick papers / Charles Dickens

New Year. Dirge for the year / Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ceremony upon Candlemas Eve / Robert Herrick

Sonnet / Thomas Hood

Ring out, wild bells, from In memoriam / Alfred Tennyson.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Sargent fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780712352765

0712352767

OCLC:

1057794448