If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, O. He...

The Complete Works of John KebleJohn Keble was an English churchman and poet, one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement. Keble College, Oxford, was named after him.This collection includes the following titles:National ApostasyThe Christian Year

In "The Christian Year," John Keble presents a profound exploration of the Christian liturgical calendar through a series of eighty-three original poems, each corresponding to specific days or seasons of the ecclesiastical year. Published in 1827, this seminal work is characterized by its lyrical beauty and rich imagery, intertwining sacred themes with personal devotion. Keble's poetic style reflects the Romantic tradition, infused with a deep sense of spirituality that invites readers to ...

In "The Christian Year," John Keble presents a profound exploration of the Anglican liturgical calendar, meticulously interweaving poetry with theological reflections. Each poem corresponds to the seasons and events of the Christian year, creating a tapestry of devotional material that both illuminates scripture and enriches the spiritual life of the reader. Keble's style is marked by a delicate and lyrical quality, reminiscent of the Romantic poets, yet deeply rooted in ecclesiastical tra...

"The Christian Year" by John Keble is a group of songs and poems that show the liturgical calendar of the Church of England in a poetic way. Keble, a well-known Anglican priest and Oxford student, wrote this as a spiritual manual to go together with the Christian yr's exceptional seasons and banquet days. The collection is divided into elements that suit the liturgical calendar. For instance, there are poems for every Sunday and critical non-religious activities. Keble's strains show a dee...

The eleventh month of the year in the Gregorian calendar; the land becomes bleaker, harsher but no less beautiful for that. For our poets, including Hood, Arnold, Melville, Alford and Hardy there is much to write and comment on. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe. The tracks are; November - An Introduction; A November Note By Alfred Austin; The Going Of The Battery (Wives Lament November 2nd 1899) By Thomas Hardy; November Findings, November 1862 By Janet Hamilton; Dup...

The eleventh month of the Gregorian year brings the change from Autumn into Winter. Landscapes are scrubbed of colour and all their frills, the statued forms of trees are the grammar, the structure of her ways. Days shorten, nights lengthen and for our classic poets there is work to be done.Across fifty poems our classic poets including Matthew Arnold, Thomas Hardy, Herman Melville, Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Alice Guerin Crist illuminate the month, the natural world and the human ...

Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us.Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition ...

Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. . In this series we look at each calendar month through the eyes and minds of our most gifted poets to bring you a unique poetic guide to the days within each. November The eleventh month of the year in the Gregorian calendar; the land becomes bleaker, harsher but no less beaut...

Greed has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit to become suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his grandson and name-sake to make his own way in the world. And so young Martin sets out from the Wiltshire home of his supposed champion, the scheming architect Pecksniff, to seek his fortune in America. In depicting Martin's journey Dickens created many vividly realized figures, from Martin's optimistic manservant Mark Tapley to the drunken and corrupt private nurse Mrs Gamp. With its portrayal of...

The life and career of a Poet is often thought of as musing at a desk, or lying in a meadow, or on long journeys to find inspiration for their next masterwork. But more often than not a poet was a part-time profession in subservient submission to their actual, salary-paying job.In this volume we bring together men of the cloth, those people of faith who spent most of their lives in devotional duties in the service of one so they could, in their spare time, serve another.

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poet...