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- 1From:Hecate (Vol. 36, Issue 1-2) Peer-Revieweda white dove perched on the tip of my blue and gold tree-- a magpie warbles from the hills hoist the fire-truck sounds a hooter-- no bushfire just the seasonal lolly-run for the kids holly and the ivy-- golden-haired...
- 2From:Southwest Review (Vol. 102, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedIn the years before they wire it for electricity, the elders drag into the sanctuary a venerable evergreen, snow-wreathed and sap-weeping from the little wood behind the church. The wives clip tapers to its branches and...
- 3From:Atlanta Review (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedLate Night Christmas Shopping "Anything last minute you still need?" I ask my mother, well aware that need can't be in it; and, to avoid the crowds, delay till the eleventh hour, then drive through sleet beneath a...
- 4From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 92, Issue 2)In the restaurant window, a sign. LEBANESE COOKING . Inside, a glitzy fir tree my husband wants near him. For the evergreen scent. The tree turns out to be a fake. We sit by it anyway, inches from its glittering cheer....
- 5From:Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation (Vol. 46, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe publication of William J. Christmas's fine survey of laboring-class poetry from Duck to Clare is well-timed, arriving on the heels of much new work on these boundary figures (including the recent debates over the...
- 6From:The Modern Language Review (Vol. 98, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe Lab'ring Muses: Work, Writing, and the Social Order in English Plebeian Poetry, 1730-1830. By WILLIAM J. CHRISTMAS. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 364 pp. 44...
- 7From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 6036)The perambulatory habit has its origins in therapy. It began as a way of avoiding talking about Christmas gift books. The hope was to find not a collectable treasure but "a little-known work by a well-known writer", at...
- 8From:Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe meanings and practices associated with the celebration of Christmas occupy a notable place in the study of cultural and social histories, where there is particular emphasis on the tensions between Christmas and...
- 9From:Queen's Quarterly (Vol. 123, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWhen Bing Crosby travelled overseas to entertain American troops during World War II, "White Christmas" was the song they most wanted to hear. According to a later interview, he developed...
- 10From:Crazyhorse (Issue 98) Peer-ReviewedMy daughter collected pine needles in a thick, etched-glass box with no obvious function. The size of an ashtray with a lid-- designed to hold the souls of birds? Every year till she was thirteen, she'd scoop some...
- 11From:American Music Teacher (Vol. 57, Issue 3)Every year at our house there is the issue of the Christmas tree. Ideally, I want one. I love the tradition of really decking the halls. I love sitting in the dark with only the twinkling lights to keep me company. I...
- 12From:Victorian Poetry (Vol. 50, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed"Christmas-Eve" has been a difficult poem to accommodate to the Browning canon.**** It has seemed an exaggeration of the poet's excesses--too ironic and at the same time too self-satisfied, too crude in its rhythms, too...
- 13From:Design WeekIt looks like punters are already fed up with the millennium hype. Concerns among retailers that people will spend less this Christmas because of the festivities coming straight afterwards have been reduced by a new...
- 14From:New Coin Poetry (Vol. 50, Issue 2)Seven soldiers came visiting on Christmas Day, on Christmas Day; all overflowing with presents on Christmas Day, on Christmas Day. They punched, hung the man naked to the beams of his hut. Head down like some mutated...
- 15From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5986-5987)On June 10, 1870, the London newsboys trumpeted the day's shocking headline: Charles Dickens had died the evening before, at his house near Rochester. Hearing the news, a barrow-girl in Drury Lane asked a friend,...
- 16From:Biography (Vol. 31, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedChristmas, Jane What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim: A Midlife Misadventure on Spain's Camino de Santiago de Compostela. Jane Christmas. Vancouver: GreyStone, 2007. 295 pp. $21.95. "If you want to read about an...
- 17From:War, Literature & The Arts (Vol. 29, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewedmick kennedy teaches creative writing, composition and literature at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College in Elizabethtown, KY where he is also editor of The Heartland Review . Kennedy received honorable mention...
- 18From:School Library Journal (Vol. 68, Issue 4)* CHRISTMAS, Johnnie. Swim Team. 256p. HarperAlley. May 2022. pap. $12.99. ISBN 9780063056763. Gr 3-6--When Bree's father takes a coding job in Florida, the two move cross-country and Bree's world is turned...
- 19From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 6038-6039)The quiz, set by Tony Lurcock of Oxford, is for entertainment rather than for competition. It has been set without using the internet; readers are encouraged, in the same spirit, to exercise their literary rather than...
- 20From:Instructor (1990) (Vol. 120, Issue 3)CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD We learn about the holiday traditions around the world by making crafts that pertain to various countries. To represent Mexico, we make paper poinsettias. For Germany, we make 3D Christmas...