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Summary

Over the centuries the Christian festival of the celebration of Christ has lost much of its religious element as it has morphed into becoming a convenient date for mass marketing and the consumption of excess food, drink and material goods to a now global audience. 
 
But look below the glossy veneer of commercialism and we find a truer meaning, a moral message and guidance that whilst we may all want it watered down a little in these more secular times does contain some truths and principles for us all to enjoy better lives and better relationships with those around us. 
 
In this volume of fifty poems our classic poets bring us everything from the tried and trusted view to the irreverent but mainly focus on their faith that can rejoice at this festival and makes us all part of the human race, its ideals and its joys.   
 
1 - Fifty Shades of Christmas - An Introduction 
2 - The Nativity by Henry Vaughan 
3 - Nativity by John Donne 
4 - Wondrous Sight For Men and Angels by Ann Griffiths 
5 - Angels From the Realms of Glory by James Montgomery 
6 - New Prince New Pomp by Robert Southwell 
7 - The Three Kings by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
8 - The Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Christopher Smart 
9 - Christmas Carol by Sara Teasdale 
10 - A Nativity by Rudyard Kipling 
11 - A Christmas Carol by Aubrey De Vere 
12 - Carol by Ben Jonson 
13 - A Christmas Carol by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
14 - A Christmas Carol by G K Chesterton 
15 - The Beautiful Mother by Jacopone da Todi 
16 - Upon Christ His Birth by Sir John Suckling 
17 - An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour by Robert Herrick 
18 - A Carol. I by Mildmay Fane, Earl of Westmorland 
19 - The Burning Babe by Robert Southwell 
20 - A Christmas Ghost Story by Thomas Hardy 
21 - God Rest by Daniel Sheehan 
22 - December Sales Drive by Daniel Sheehan 
23 - Christmas For Atheists by Daniel Sheehan 
24 - The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy 
25 - Christmas Eve by Christina Rossetti 
26 - The Oxen by Thomas Hardy 
27 - A Visit From St Nicholas ('Twas The Night Before Christmas) by Clement Moore 
28 - Old Christmastide (An Extract) by Sir Walter Scott 
29 - In the Bleak Midwinter by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
30 - On the Morning of Christs Nativity by John Milton 
31 - The Mother of God by William Butler Yeats 
32 - Winter Sunset by Katharine Tynan 
33 - Joseph by G K Chesterton 
34 - The White Snow by Guillaume Apollinaire 
35 - A Winter's Sad Retreat by Daniel Sheehan 
36 - December's Snow by Arthur Conan Doyle 
37 - As Sleigh Bells Seem In Summer by Emily Dickinson 
38 - Winter Heavens by George Meredith 
39 - Sweetheart Winter by Vachel Lindsay 
40 - The Foolish Fir Tree by Henry Van Dyke 
41 - Minstrels.  A Christmas Poem by William Wordsworth 
42 - The Mahogany Tree by William Makepeace Thackeray 
43 - The Savior Must Have Been A Docile Gentleman by Emily Dickinson 
44 - Twas Just This Time Last Year I Died by Emily Dickinson 
45 - The House of Christmas by G K Chesterton 
46 - Christmas at Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson 
47 -  Christmas Fancies by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
48 - Christmas Poem by Robert Herrick 
49 - The Masque of Christmas by Ben Jonson 
50 - Christmas Bells by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
51 - Ring Out Wild Bells. Christmas Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Duration: about 1 hour (01:08:00)
Publishing date: 2019-01-01; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —

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