TIS THE SEASON TO BE JOLLY - Christmas Carols & Poems
A Timeless Anthology of Sacred Carols, Winter Verse, Childhood Wonder, and Holiday CheerBy Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Montgomery, Sir Walter Scott, Clement Clarke Moore, William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Hardy, Emily Dickinson, William Butler Yeats, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Kingsley, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, C. W. Stubbs, William Topaz McGonagall, Eugene Field, Carolyn Wells, Phillips Brooks, James Russell Lowell, Alfred Domett, Reginald Heber, Dinah Maria Mulock, Margaret Deland, Nora A. Smith, Isaac Watts, Robert Herrick, Edmund Hamilton Sears, Ben Jonson, Edmund Bolton, William Drummond, Robert Southwell, C.S. Stone, Frances Ridley Havergal, William Morris, William Shakespeare, Charles Mackay, Harriet F. Blodgett, Eliza Cook, George Wither, Martin Luther, Christian Burke, Andrew Lang, Emily Huntington Miller, Cyril Winterbotham, Robert Browning
Length5h 16m
About this audiobook
TIS THE SEASON TO BE JOLLY—Christmas Carols & Poems gathers sacred hymnody, traditional carols, devotional lyrics, comic verse, children's poetry, and reflective seasonal meditations into a capacious literary portrait of Christmas. Spanning Renaissance song, Romantic reverie, Victorian domesticity, and later popular verse, the volume moves between Nativity solemnity, winter landscape, communal celebration, and playful festivity. Familiar carol forms stand beside richly literary poems, including evocative treatments of bells, holly, hospitality, childhood wonder, and the moral claims of charity. Its contributors represent several centuries of British, Irish, American, and European literary and religious culture: canonical poets, hymn writers, clerics, translators, balladeers, and writers for young readers. Voices associated with Protestant devotion, Romanticism, Victorian medievalism, Aesthetic and popular verse, and transatlantic domestic poetry collectively demonstrate how Christmas became both a theological observance and a durable imaginative tradition. The presence of comic and sentimental pieces alongside grave religious works preserves the season's historical breadth rather than reducing it to a single mood. This anthology is especially rewarding for readers seeking a compact survey of Christmas writing across genres and eras. It offers educational value as a record of changing poetic diction, religious feeling, and festive custom, while inviting readers to trace resonances among differing voices. A generous seasonal companion, it fosters dialogue between reverence and merriment, inheritance and reinvention.
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GenrePoetry
Length5 hrs 16 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
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Publish dateNov 27, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Complete Poetical Works of Stephen Crane (Annotated)
2Silent Night
3The Three Kings (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
4Christmas Bells (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
5Christmas At Sea (Robert Louis Stevenson)
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6Angels from the Realms of Glory (James Montgomery)
7Christmas in the Olden Time (Sir Walter Scott)
8Marmion: A Christmas Poem (Sir Walter Scott)
9Old Santa Claus (Clement Clarke Moore)
10The Twelve Days of Christmas
11Minstrels (William Wordsworth)
12Ring Out, Wild Bells (Alfred Lord Tennyson)
13Christmas In India (Rudyard Kipling)
14Hymn On The Morning Of Christ's Nativity (John Milton)
15A Christmas Carol (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
16The Oxen (Thomas Hardy)
17A Christmas Ghost Story (Thomas Hardy)
18The Savior Must Have Been A Docile Gentleman (Emily Dickinson)
19'Twas just this time, last year, I died (Emily Dickinson)
20The Magi (William Butler Yeats)
21The Mahogany Tree (William Makepeace Thackeray)
22A Bell (Clinton Scollard)
23Christmas Carol (Sara Teasdale)
24The Mystic’s Christmas (John Greenleaf Whittier)
25Christmas Cheer (Thomas Tusser)
26Noel: Christmas Eve 1913 (Robert Seymour Bridges)
27The Holly and the Ivy
28Adam lay ybounden
29Christmas Day (Charles Kingsley)
30Christmas Fancies (Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
31Twas jolly, jolly Wat (C. W. Stubbs)
32A Tale Of Christmas Eve (William Topaz McGonagall)
33Jest 'Fore Christmas (Eugene Field)
34A Christmas Folksong (Paul Laurence Dunbar)
35As with Gladness Men of Old (William Chatterton Dix)
36Nativity a Christmas (John Donne)
37Boar's Head Carol
38Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus (Charles Wesley)
39Coventry Carol
40Here We Come A-wassailing
41A Defective Santa Claus (James Whitcomb Riley)
42King Winter
43Christmas Gifts and Other Poems (Carolyn Wells)
44The Night After Christmas (Anonymous)
45O Little Town of Bethlehem (Phillips Brooks)
46The Shepherds (William Drummond)
47A Christmas Carol (James Russell Lowell)
48A Christmas Hymn (Alfred Domett)
49Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning (Reginald Heber)
50God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen (Dinah Maria Mulock)
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