A Christmas Collection

by Peter Jeffrey (Narrator), John Moffatt, Susan Engel

Christmas brings out the best and worst in us, as can be seen in this evocative anthology. Among what Thomas Love Peacock calls the 'many poetical charms in the heraldings of Christmas' there are eulogies by saints and diatribes from curmudgeons. Here, Christmas is expounded by divines, sung by rustics, deplored by philosophers, made mystical in stories...and summed up in a line by the poet Elizabeth 'The hush, the star, the baby, people being kind again'.

Genres: Christmas, History

Audio CD

First published October 1, 1997

Reviews

[Ivy-Mabel Fling · Rating 5 out of 5]

This collection is a real gem - it contains many snippets of poems, tales and even recipes, often taken from relatively little-known texts. It is ideal if you want to avoid the usual Christmas stories but do not want anything too postmodern!