O Holy Night!: Masterworks of Christmas Poetry (English, Multilingual and Multilingual Edition) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0918477247 ISBN 13: 9780918477248

Publisher: Sophia Inst Pr, 1995

Synopsis

Gathers Christmas poetry from around the world, including poems by John Donne, Virgil, G.K. Chesterton, Alexander Pope, Oscar Wilde, St. Bonaventure, Ben Jonson, John Milton, Christina Rossetti, T.S. Eliot, and Rainer Maria Rilke

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Language Notes:

Text: English

From Booklist:

The Christmas season is the time of year when poetry is actually heard in public, thanks to the resolutely secular works of Clement Clarke Moore ("'Twas the night before Christmas") and Dr. Seuss (How the Grinch Stole Christmas). Religious folk remind us, of course, that the season is basically of sacred significance. They might add that there is a vast body of beautiful religious verse for it, too, from which editor Moser here makes a small selection of real gems. He presents them in four parts concerned with, respectively, the prophecies of the Christ, the Annunciation and Immaculate Conception, Jesus' birth, and the promise of the Christ; each section is prefaced and "postfaced" by appropriate passages from the Bible. The poets represented, though predominantly writers of English from Cynewulf to Richard Wilbur, include Virgil as translated by Dryden among the prophets, many early churchmen, and non-English bards ranging from Dante to Pasternak; Moser, often with helpers, does most of the translating. This is a reverently lovely gift for the season. Ray Olson

About this edition

• Publisher: Sophia Inst Pr
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0918477247
• ISBN 13: 9780918477248
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Moser Johann M.