Product Description: This is the first full-scale analysis of T.S. Eliot's six "Ariel Poems" as Christmas poems. Through close readings, Atkins argues that these poems considered together emerge as clearly related representations of the "impossible union" that occurred in the Incarnation.

Product Description: Moore analyzes how the Christmas holiday, revitalized during the Victorian era, and the flurry of texts supporting it contributed to English national identity.

An anthology of Christmas writings by Charles Dickens features the complete text of 'A Christmas Carol,' complemented by period illustrations and excerpts from other writings.

Product Description: "You could say, couldn't you, that Charles Dickens was the man who invented Christmas?" When he was curator of London's Charles Dickens Museum, Dr. Parker was frequently asked this question by journalists and visitors. Proponents of the connection between Dickens and Christmas argue that the novelist redirected public attention to the old Christian customs and festivals, as though England had ceased to be jolly through the decline of the Middle Ages and the rise of Modernity...read more

Traces the life of Clement Moore, and recounts how he came to write the poem that has become a Christmas tradition. (view table of contents)

A collection of Christmas songs, poems, and stories with background information on their history

Traces the life of Clement Moore, and recounts how he came to write the poem that has become a Christmas tradition

Traces the life of Clement Moore, and recounts how he came to write the poem that has become a Christmas tradition