Description
“Few things capture Christmas as well as poetry, and many have become standard, including ones whose verses became carols too”
| Preparations |
| 1. Clement Moore: ‘Twas the Night before Christmas (A Visit from |
| St.Nicholas) / Basil Rathbone 3:15 |
| 2. Robert Frost: Stopping by Woods / Robert Frost 0:50 |
| 3. Robert Frost: Dust of Snow / (author) 0:17 |
| 4. Eugene Field: When Santa Claus Comes / Jonathan Jones 0:45 |
| 5. John Betjeman: Christmas / Alec Guinness 2:13 |
| 6. E.E. Cummings: Little Tree / Jonathan Jones 1:23 |
| Seasonal Regrets |
| 7. Emily Dickinson: ‘Twas just this time last year I died / |
| Annette Daniels Taylor 1:17 |
| 8. Alfred Lord Tennyson: Ring out Wild Bells ! |
| (Canto CVI from In Memoriam A.H.H) / Jonathan Jones 2:05 |
| 9. Jill Furse: Carol / Robert Donat 0:42 |
| 10. Henry W. Longfellow: Christmas Bells / Jonathan Jones 1:59 |
| Celebrations & Mythology |
| 11. Edgar Guest: At Christmas / Jonathan Jones 2:23 |
| 12. Theodore Watts-Dunton: Wassail Chorus at the Mermaid |
| Tavern / Robert Donat 3:12 |
| 13. William Wordsworth: Minstrels / Jonathan Jones 1:02 |
| 14. Walter de la Mare: Mistletoe / Jonathan Jones 0:52 |
| 15. C.Day Lewis: The Christmas Tree / (author) 1:29 |
| 16. John Mason Neale: Good King Wenceslas / Jonathan Jones 1:54 |
| Christmas Scenes |
| 17. Shakespeare: When Icycles Hang / Claire Bloom 0:52 |
| 18. William Wordsworth: A Boisterous Winter Evening / Alec Clunes 2:20 |
| 19. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Frost at Midnight / |
| Richard Burton & Dulcie Gray 4:39 |
| 20. Laurie Lee: Christmas Landscape / Jonathan Jones 1:40 |
| 21. Thomas Hardy: Snow in the Suburbs / Carleton Hobbs 1:06 |
| 22. James Stephens: Donnybrook / Lewis Jones 0:57 |
| 23. Odette Tchernine: The Snow / Dulcie Gray 1:08 |
| Biblical |
| 24. Hilaire Belloc: Noel / Robert Donat 1:27 |
| 25. Sara Teasdale: Christmas Carol / Jonathan Jones 1:16 |
| 26. T.S. Eliot: Journey of the Magi / Alec Guinness 2:33 |
| 27. Thomas Hardy: The Oxen / Robert Donat 0:42 |
| 28. Christina Rosetti: In the Bleak Midwinter / Jonathan Jones 1:51 |
| 29. John Alexander Chapman: Christus Natus Est / Robert Donat 1:14 |
| 30. Anon. Cherry Tree Carol / Alec Guinness 2:11 |
| 31. Anon. I Syng of a Mayden (‘Early Carol’) / Robert Donat 0:48 |
| 32. St.Francis of Assisi: Prayer / Robert Donat 1:52 |
| Prose & New Year |
| 33. Dylan Thomas: A Child’s Christmas in Wales / (read by author) 19:48 |
| 34. Robert Burns: Auld Lang Syne / Frederick Worlock 1:10 |
