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    Christmas Poetry - A Season In Verse: Classic Xmas poems that make the perfect Christmas gift
    Christmas Poetry - A Season In Verse: Classic Xmas poems that make the perfect Christmas gift
    Christmas Poetry - A Season In Verse: Classic Xmas poems that make the perfect Christmas gift
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    Christmas Poetry - A Season In Verse: Classic Xmas poems that make the perfect Christmas gift

    Written by Thomas Hardy, GK Chesterton, Alfred Lord Tennyson and

    Narrated by Ghizela Rowe

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    About this audiobook

    Christmas, they say, comes but once a year. In these days it seems to also last for much of that year but this volume is not just for Christmas! For the religious amongst us this annual celebration of the Birth of Christ must seem bitter sweet; it’s acknowledgment by billions of people countered by the pervasive spread of material possessions translating the event to little more than a sales pitch for their own wares. Most religions celebrate their founders but Christianity seems somehow to have lost possession of one of its key rituals in an ever more secular West. The spread of globalisation seems to have hindered rather than helped the true meaning of the festival. Children today are much more interested in what presents they might receive than any spiritual message. As parents too, most of us buy into this and indulge our offspring rather than instil the underlying themes and aims of the festival’s meaning common to us all. In this collection we rely on the words and wisdom of such fine poets as John Milton, Emily Dickinson, Sir Walter Scott, Daniel Sheehan, Wordsworth, Longfellow and a whole host of others to absorb us in a Christmas time of hope and togetherness. The experiences and memories they share with us speak of a time, of a world that did have a common purpose and an ambition to share good fortune with everyone. This selection is read for you by Ghizela Rowe and Tim Graham.

    01 - Christmas - An Introroduction

    02 - A Nativity By Rudyard Kipling

    03 - A Visit From St Nicholas ( (T'Was The Night Before Christmas) By Clement Moore

    04 - The Oxen By Thomas Hardy

    05 - The Three Kings By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    06 - Christmas Eve By Christina Rossetti

    07 - On The Morning Of Christs Nativity By John Milton

    08 - The Burning Babe By Robert Southwell

    09 - The Nativity Of Our Lord And Saviour Jesus Christ By Christopher Smart

    10 - The Mother Of God By William Butler Yeats

    11 - The House Of Christmas By GK Chesterton

    12 - The Masque Of Christmas By Ben Jonson

    13 - The Old Year By John Clare

    14 - Upon Christ His Birth By Sir John Suckling

    15 - An Ode Of The Birth Of Our Saviour By Robert Herrick

    16 - A Christmas Carol By Aubrey De Vere

    17 - A Christmas Carol By GK Chesterton

    18 - A Christmas Carol By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    19 - Christmas Poem By Robert Herrick

    20 - Ceremonies For Christmas By Robert Herrick

    21 - Christmas Carol By Sara Teasdale

    22 - The Mahogany Tree By William Makepeace Thackeray

    23 - Minstrels A Christmas Poem By William Wordsworth

    24 - Old Christmastide (An Extract) By Sir Walter Scott TIM

    25 - Joseph by GK Chesterton

    26 - The Nativity By Henry Vaughan

    27 - Nativity By John Donne

    28 - The Beautiful Mother By Jacopone Da Todi

    29 - New Prince New Pomp By Robert Southwell

    30 - In The Bleak Midwinter By Christina Rossetti

    31 - Winters Naked Wood By Daniel Sheehan

    32 - Christmas At Sea By Robert Louis Stevenson

    33 - No Mercy Here By Daniel Sheehan

    34 - A Christmas Ghost Story By Thomas Hardy

    35 - God Rest By Daniel Sheehan

    36 - December Sales Drive By Daniel Sheehan

    37 - Christmas For Atheists By Daniel Sheehan

    38 - Carol By Ben Jonson

    39 - The Savior Must Have Been A Docile Gentleman By Emily Dickinson

    40 - T'Was Just This Time Last Year I Died By Emily Dickinson

    41 - As Sleigh Bells Seem In Summer By Emily Dickinson

    42 - Christmas Fancies By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

    43 - Ring Out Wild Bells Christmas Poem By Alfred lord Tennyson

    44 - Christmas Bells By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Copyright Group
    Release dateJan 1, 2014
    ISBN9781780000213
    Christmas Poetry - A Season In Verse: Classic Xmas poems that make the perfect Christmas gift
    Author

    Thomas Hardy

    Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset in 1840, the eldest of four children. At the age of sixteen he became an apprentice architect. With remarkable self discipline he developed his classical education by studying between the hours of four and eight in the morning. With encouragement from Horace Moule of Queens' College Cambridge, he began to write fiction. His first published novel was Desperate Remedies in 1871. Thus began a series of increasingly dark novels all set within the rural landscape of his native Dorset, called Wessex in the novels. Such was the success of his early novels, including A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) and Far From the Madding Crowd (1874), that he gave up his work as an architect to concentrate on his writing. However he had difficulty in getting Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1889) published and was forced to make changes in order for it to be judged suitable for family readers. This coupled with the stormy reaction to the negative tone of Jude the Obscure (1894) prompted Hardy to abandon novel writing altogether. He concentrated mainly on poetry in his latter years. He died in January 1928 and was buried in Westminster Abbey; but his heart, in a separate casket, was buried in Stinsford, Dorset.

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