and Eliza Cook’s 1840 poem “The Christmas Holly” is an ode to the merriment that the plant can bring. The English poet came from a modest working-class family and was a huge advocate for ...

Christmas Day Poems in English: Christmas is around the corner and we just can’t control our excitement. Finally, it’s time for the holiday cheer and cold December breeze. The season of hot ...

Like the best hymns, Rossetti’s Christmas poems offer us little theological treatises ... the poems are drawn from the deep traditions of English verse: the great work of the past and the living poets ...

There's a new book that celebrates 200 years of the most famous Christmas poem ever written in English, which probably has roots here in the North... Sep 28, 2022 — There's a new book that ...

And so Chesterton embraced Christmas in a way surpassed only by Dickens in English literature. And why not? It is a place where our festival practices — partly pagan, often commercialized, frequently ...

It is one of the most famous poems in the English language—almost as famous as Christmas itself. A single word is enough to get going: “‘Twas”. You know the rest, or probably quite a bit ...

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You've heard of the beloved "’Twas the Night Before Christmas" poem—maybe some reinterpretations and parodies of it too. But who actually wrote it, and what inspired these iconic holiday verses?

19th-century English poet Christina Rossetti is remembered for her love poems, religious poems and poems for the grieving. Rossetti’s “Love Came Down at Christmas” has simple verses that ...

nothing beats reading the “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” poem with a crackling fireplace, twinkling tree and jolly carols ...