The Oxford Book of Christmas Poems - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192760807 ISBN 13: 9780192760807

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1988

Synopsis

This beautifully designed book, containing well over one hundred poems for Christmas, old and new, traditional and modern, has at last been issued in paperback.
The collection is organized into four sections starting in winter, moving through Advent, and arriving at the Nativity and the heart of the Christmas season. Finally, with the arrival of the Wise Men, comes the promise of a new year. Full of old chestnuts like "The Night Before Christmas", there are surprises here too in poems like Thomas Hardy's "Christmas: 1924" and Elizabeth Jennings' "Afterthought". The poets include Robert Lowell, John Betjeman, Elizabeth Coatsworth, William Blake, Madeleine L'Engle and many, many more.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Harrison and Christopher Stuart-Clark are also the compilers of The Oxford Treasury of Children's Poems.

Review:

`This is a superb collection: serious and funny, meditative and prayerful, narrative and in song-form. The illustrations by many artists are beautiful . . . an excellent gift.

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The Malvern Gazette

`Like good Christmas pudding . . . exceedingly rich, and full of unexpected bits.

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Good Housekeeping

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0192760807
• ISBN 13: 9780192760807
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Harrison Michael, Stuart-Clark Christopher