Knopf Doubleday, Sachbücher, Christmas Poems (Englisch, Various, 1999)

A beautiful hardcover stocking-stuffer collecting the best-loved poems to celebrate the Christmas season, ranging from traditional religious poems to works by Emily Dickinson, Dorothy Parker, and Philip Larkin. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET. 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: &bull &ldquo The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman&rdquo by Emily Dickinson &bull &ldquo Christmas is Coming&rdquo by Anthony Hecht &bull &ldquo Christmas in India&rdquo by Rudyard Kipling &bull &ldquo Shepherd&rsquo s Song at Christmas&rdquo by Langston Hughes &bull &ldquo The Christmas Robin&rdquo by Robert Graves &bull &ldquo Office Party&rdquo by Phyllis McGinley &bull &ldquo The Maid-Servant at the Inn&rdquo by Dorothy Parker &bull &ldquo New Year Poem&rdquo by Philip Larkin Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.