{"product_id":"christmas-poems-9780375407895","title":"Christmas Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChristmas 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: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- \"The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman\" by Emily Dickinson \u003cbr\u003e- \"Christmas is Coming\" by Anthony Hecht\u003cbr\u003e- \"Christmas in India\" by Rudyard Kipling\u003cbr\u003e- \"Shepherd's Song at Christmas\" by Langston Hughes\u003cbr\u003e- \"The Christmas Robin\" by Robert Graves\u003cbr\u003e- \"Office Party\" by Phyllis McGinley\u003cbr\u003e- \"The Maid-Servant at the Inn\" by Dorothy Parker\u003cbr\u003e- \"New Year Poem\" by Philip Larkin \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEveryman'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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Hollander\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Everyman's Library\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/26\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.64h x 4.56w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375407895\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/25\/1999 pg. 77\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/1999 pg. 1844\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJOHN HOLLANDER is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry. His first, \u003ci\u003eA Crackling of Thorns\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eRhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e The Work of Poetry, \u003c\/i\u003eand edited or coedited twenty-two collections, among them \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford Anthology of English Literature, American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, \u003c\/i\u003eand (with Anthony Hecht, with whom he shared the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1983) \u003ci\u003eJiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls. \u003c\/i\u003eIn 1990 he received a MacArthur Fellowship. He died in August 2013.\u003cbr\u003eJ. D. MCCLATCHY\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of four earlier books of poems, \u003ci\u003eScenes from Another Life\u003c\/i\u003e (1981), \u003ci\u003eStars Principal\u003c\/i\u003e (1986), \u003ci\u003eThe Rest of the Way\u003c\/i\u003e (1990), and \u003ci\u003eTen Commandments\u003c\/i\u003e (1998). His literary essays are collected in \u003ci\u003eWhite Paper\u003c\/i\u003e (1989) and \u003ci\u003eTwenty Questions\u003c\/i\u003e (1998). He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (1990) and \u003ci\u003eThe Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (1996), as well as a co-editor of James Merrill's \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (2001) and \u003ci\u003eCollected Novels and Plays\u003c\/i\u003e (2002). The author of several opera libretti, McClatchy was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He taught at Yale University and was editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Yale Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in 2018.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"John Hollander \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":47430085148829,"sku":"9780375407895","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_3ae38f98-c0fe-4c27-8ea8-60fcc471bad8.jpg?v=1763762513","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/christmas-poems-9780375407895","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}