Christmas In Prose And Verse
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Author | : Various |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2022-09-16 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Christmas" (Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse) by Various. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author | : Robert Haven Schauffler |
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Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Christmas |
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Author | : Allison C. Putalla |
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Total Pages | : 812 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781879582545 |
Author | : Various Authors |
Publisher | : Jazzybee Verlag |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3849647331 |
Christmas is our most important holiday, and its literature is correspondingly rich. Yet until now no adequate bundle of Christmas treasures in poetry and prose has found its way into the library of Santa Claus. While this book brings to children of all ages, in school and at home, the best lyrics, carols, essays, plays and stories of Christmas, its scope is yet wider. For the Introduction gives a rapid view of the holiday's origin and development, its relation to cognate pagan festivals, the customs and symbols of its observance in different lands, and the significance and spirit of the day. This Introduction endeavors to be as suggestive as possible to parents and teachers who are personally conducted and introduced to the host of writers learned and quaint, human and pedantic, humorous and brilliant and profound, who have dealt technically with this fascinating subject.
Author | : Robert Haven Schauffler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2015-09-02 |
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ISBN | : 9781341169762 |
Author | : Eugene Field |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Library |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : History |
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Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1943 |
Genre | : Christmas poetry |
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Author | : Mike McArthur |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Christmas |
ISBN | : 9780952982104 |
Author | : Robert Haven, Editor Schauffler |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2008-09-23 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781435733244 |
Originally published in 1907 as part of Dodd, Mead & Company's "Our American Holidays" series. With entires from Charles Wesley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Milton, Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, William Makepeace Thackeray, Washington Irving, William Wordsworth, Alfred Tennyson, Martin Luther, Hans Christian Andersen and dozens of other authors whose names ring synonymous with everything about our most cherished American holiday that touches our hearts and inspires our spirits (even the famous "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Clause" letter is here!), Robert Haven Schauffler's Christmas: Its Origin, Celebration And Significance As Related In Prose And Verse brings together in a single omnibus volume the most complete collection of beloved classic Yultide poems, stories, carols, hymns and more, from both religious and secular sources, ever compiled between the covers of a single book. A true "must-have" for vintage Christmas and antiquarian book collectors alike.
Author | : W. H. Auden |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2013-05-26 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0691158274 |
The first critical edition of Auden's only explicitly religious long poem For the Time Being is a pivotal book in the career of one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. W. H. Auden had recently moved to America, fallen in love with a young man to whom he considered himself married, rethought his entire poetic and intellectual equipment, and reclaimed the Christian faith of his childhood. Then, in short order, his relationship fell apart and his mother, to whom he was very close, died. In the midst of this period of personal crisis and intellectual remaking, he decided to write a poem about Christmas and to have it set to music by his friend Benjamin Britten. Applying for a Guggenheim grant, Auden explained that he understood the difficulty of writing something vivid and distinctive about that most clichéd of subjects, but welcomed the challenge. In the end, the poem proved too long and complex to be set by Britten, but in it we have a remarkably ambitious and poetically rich attempt to see Christmas in double focus: as a moment in the history of the Roman Empire and of Judaism, and as an ever-new and always contemporary event for the believer. For the Time Being is Auden's only explicitly religious long poem, a technical tour de force, and a revelatory window into the poet's personal and intellectual development. This edition provides the most accurate text of the poem, a detailed introduction by Alan Jacobs that explains its themes and sets the poem in its proper contexts, and thorough annotations of its references and allusions.