Author: Carol Ann Duffy Publisher: Picador ISBN: 1743288247 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 45
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This is a specially formatted fixed layout ebook that retains the look and feel of the print book. Carol Ann Duffy's gorgeously illustrated Christmas poem for 2012.In her own inimitable style, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy retells the story of King Wenceslas and his sumptuous Feast of St. Stephen.
Author: John M. Neale Publisher: Eerdmans Young Readers ISBN: 1467432164 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 36
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Good King Wenceslas looked out on the Feast of Stephen, when the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even. Brightly shone the moon that night, though the frost was cruel, when a poor man came in sight, gathering winter fuel.This story, based on actual events that occurred in the tenth century, tells of a kind-hearted king and his page who set out to help a poor man on a cold winter's night and experience a miracle along the way. Tim Ladwig's energetic paintings bring new life to the familiar words and remind readers of all ages that helping others is a blessing.
Author: John Hollander Publisher: Everyman's Library ISBN: 0375407898 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 258
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Christmas is both a holiday and a holy day, and from the start it has been associated with poetry, from the song of the seraphim above the manger to the cherished carols around the punch bowl. This garland of Christmas poems contains not only the ones you would insist on finding here ("A Visit from St. Nicholas," "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming," and "The Twelve Days of Christmas" among them) but such equally enchanting though lesser-known Yuletide treasures as Emily Dickinson's "The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman," Anthony Hecht's "Christmas Is Coming," Rudyard Kipling's "Christmas in India," Langston Hughes's "Shepherd's Song at Christmas," Robert Graves's "The Christmas Robin," and happy surprises like Phyllis McGinley's "Office Party," Dorothy Parker's "The Maid-Servant at the Inn," and Philip Larkin's "New Year Poem."
Author: Clement C. Moore Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages :
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A Visit from St. Nicholas, more commonly known as The Night before Christmas is a small poem by an American writer, entrepreneur and public person Clement C. Moore. For the first time it was described how Santa Claus looked and moved (he flew in the sky in a sleigh pulled by reindeer, whose names were also mentioned), and what happened when he was visiting a house on Christmas Eve with the presents. A Visit from St. Nicholas is still the most favorite Christmas fairy-tale in America. Some researchers consider it to be “probably the most famous poem ever written by an American”. The poem influenced a lot on how Santa Claus is imagined by a whole English speaking world.
Author: James Daley Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486112489 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 114
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A rich and varied compilation of Yuletide verse, this collection will enchant readers of all ages. Featured poets include Kipling, Poe, Longfellow, Dickinson, Hardy, Donne, and many others. 25 illustrations.
Author: Carol Ann Duffy Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 1447231767 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 592
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Carol Ann Duffy has been a bold and original voice in British poetry since the publication of Standing Female Nude in 1985. Since then she has won every major poetry prize in the United Kingdom and sold over one million copies of her books around the world. She was appointed Poet Laureate in 2009. Her first Collected Poems includes all of the poems from her nine acclaimed volumes of adult poetry - from Standing Female Nude to Ritual Lighting - as well as her much-loved Christmas poems, which celebrate aspects of Christmas: from the charity of King Wenceslas to the famous truce between the Allies and the Germans in the trenches in 1914. Endlessly varied, wonderfully inventive, and emotionally powerful, the poems in this book showcase Duffy's full poetic range: there are poems written in celebration and in protest; public poems and deeply personal ones; poems that are funny, sexy, heartbroken, wise. Taken together they affirm her belief that 'poetry is the music of being human'. Collected Poems is both the perfect single-volume introduction for new readers and a glorious opportunity for old friends to celebrate thirty years' work by one of the country's greatest literary talents. It confirms indisputably that 'Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time' (Rose Tremain, Guardian).
Author: Carol Ann Duffy Publisher: Picador ISBN: 1743516096 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 48
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This is a specially formatted fixed layout ebook that retains the look and feel of the print book. From the reimagining of the Feast of Stephen in Wenceslas to The Christmas Truce, Carol Ann Duffy's moving depiction of a Christmas football match in the trenches, the Poet Laureate's Christmas poems are always brim full of her characteristic wit, warmth and imagination. Christmas 2013 brings us Bethlehem, Carol Ann Duffy's own take on the much-loved Christmas story.
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Author: Carol Ann Duffy