Christmas Poems by John Hollander

Christmas Poems by John Hollander

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.

JOHN HOLLANDER is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry. His first, A Crackling of Thorns, was chosen by W. H. Auden as the 1958 volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. He wrote eight books of criticism, including the award-winning Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse and The Work of Poetry, and edited or coedited twenty-two collections, among them The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, and (with Anthony Hecht, with whom he shared the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1983) Jiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls.

Mr. Hollander attended Columbia and Indiana Universities and was a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows of Harvard University. He taught at Connecticut College and Yale, and was a professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. In 1990 he received a MacArthur Fellowship. He died in August 2013.

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ISBN 13	9780375407895
ISBN 10	0375407898
Title	Christmas Poems
Author	John Hollander
Series	Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1999-10-26
Number of pages	256
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