A Literary Christmas

Name: A Literary Christmas
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by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, British Library, Clement Clarke Moore, William Shakespeare, Emily Brontë

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Before Christmas. A visit from St Nicholas / Clement Clarke Moore from The Feast of St Friend / Arnold Bennett The gypsy / Edward Thomas from Sons and lovers / D.H. Lawrence from Cider with Rosie / Laurie Lee from The River Duddon / William Wordsworth from Wuthering Heights / Emily Bronte from A Christmas Carol / Charles Dickens The oxen / Thomas Hardy Bertie's Christmas Eve / Saki The Nativity. A Christmas carol / Christina Rossetti from On the morning of Christ's Nativity / John Milton from The Virgin Mary to the Child Jesus / Elizabeth Barrett Browning A Christmas Carol / G.K. Chesterton Nativity / John Donne Christmas day. from his Diary / Samuel Pepys Music on Christmas morning / Anne Bronte from Orley Farm / Anthony Trollope Christmas at sea / Robert Louis Stevenson from The mill on the Floss / George Eliot Christmas in India / Rudyard Kipling The mistletoe bough / Thomas Haynes Bayly from Christmas pudding / Nancy Mitford Christmas fare. from "Old Christmas" in The sketch book of Washington Irving / Washington Irving from A Christmas carol / Charles Dickens Christmas husbandly fare, from Five hundred pointes of good husbandrie / Thomas Tusser Talking turkeys!! / Benjamin Zephaniah Another Christmas carol / P.G. Wodehouse Christmas at war. Christmas bells / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Christmas ghost-story / Thomas Hardy A Christmas prayer / Cyril Winterbotham The truce of Christmas / G.K. Chesterton The holly on the wall / W.H. Davies A child's Christmas. from A child's Christmas in Wales / Dylan Thomas from The Wind in the Willows / Kenneth Grahame The carol of the poor children / Richard Middleton from Little Women / Louisa May Alcott The lost boy / George Mackay Brown Seasonal snow and ice. from his Diary / John Evelyn from Trivia, or, The art of walking the streets of London / John Gay from English hours / Henry James from As you like it / William Shakespeare from Emma / Jane Austen The mahogany tree / William Makepeace Thackeray from The Pickwick papers / Charles Dickens New Year. Dirge for the year / Percy Bysshe Shelley Ceremony upon Candlemas Eve / Robert Herrick Sonnet / Thomas Hood Ring out, wild bells, from In memoriam / Alfred Tennyson

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1
How do the diverse historical eras and literary styles represented in this collection shape your overall perception of how the meaning of Christmas has evolved over time?
2
Which piece in the collection most effectively captured the cozy, nostalgic atmosphere of the holiday season for you, and what specific imagery or language achieved that effect?
3
Many of these selections juxtapose the warmth of indoor celebrations with the harshness of winter weather or human hardship; how does this contrast enhance the emotional weight of the holiday?

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