A blessed Advent and merry Christmas to one and all! Govert Flinck, “Angels Announcing Christ's Birth to the Shepherds,” 1639 (photo: Public Domain) Dave Armstrong Blogs December 9, 2018 ...

The below poems – like the Christmas pudding sweater or Santa Claus pair of pants ... is described as “marvellous, festive” and the dead as “blessed”. As an exercise in sentimentality and cliché, it ...

Since 2006 I've written seven Christmas poems of a narrative nature: four of them recounting different persons' (or angels’) experience on the first Christmas: Simeon (2006), the Blessed Virgin ...

Beginning with “Journey of the Magi,” Eliot’s poetry became increasingly Christian, which critics ever since have applauded or reviled. In 1948, Eliot was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

This evocative Christmas poem by Robert Louis Stevenson was published in 1888, a few years after his successful novel, Treasure Island. The Scottish writer was the son of a light-house engineer ...