Title: The Oxford book of Christmas poems /
Authors: Harrison, Michael.; Harrison, Michael, 1939-; Stuart-Clark, Christopher.; Stuart-Clark, Christopher.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 1983
Subjects: Christmas poetry.; English poetry.
Abstract: More than 100 poems, old and new, to celebrate the Christmas season.
Contents: The coming of the cold / Theodore Roethke -- Winter days / Gareth Owen -- Sleet / Norman MacCaig -- Snowflakes / Clive Sansom -- Snow-bound / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Safe / James Walker -- December / John Clare -- Advent; a carol / Patric Dickinson -- December prayer to St. Nicholas / John Heath-Stubbs -- Advent 1955 / John Betjeman -- Christmas morn / Ruth Sawyer -- Joseph was an old man / Unknown -- In the town / Unknown -- Minstrel's song / Ted Hughes -- The innkeeper's wife / Clive Sansom -- Christmas landscape / Laurie Lee -- BC:AD / U.A. Fanthorpe -- O simplicitas / Madeleine L'Engle -- Carol / Norman Nicholson -- The mother's song / Eskimo.