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The Roads from Bethlehem: Christmas Literature from Writers Ancient and Modern

by Pegram Johnson, III (Editor), Edna M. Troiano (Editor)

Other authors: Adam of Dryburgh (Contributor), James Agee (Contributor), William Alabaster (Contributor), Ambrose of Milan (Contributor), Lancelot Andrewes (Contributor)53 more, John Audelay (Contributor), Ælfric of Eynsham (Contributor), Martin Bell (Contributor), Bernard of Clairvaux (Contributor), William Blake (Contributor), G.K. Chesterton (Contributor), Lucille Clifton (Contributor), Richard Crashaw (Contributor), Jacopone da Todi (Contributor), Juana Inés de la Cruz (Contributor), John Donne (Contributor), John Dryden (Contributor), William Dunbar (Contributor), Ephraim the Syrian (Contributor), Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Contributor), Theophile Gautier (Contributor), Sidney Godolphin (Contributor), Thomas Hardy (Contributor), George Herbert (Contributor), Robert Herrick (Contributor), Gerard Manley Hopkins (Contributor), Ignatius of Antioch (Contributor), John Irving (Contributor), Sarah Orne Jewett (Contributor), Ben Jonson (Contributor), Rudyard Kipling (Contributor), E.V. Lucas (Contributor), Aodh Mac Cathmhaoil (Contributor), Thomas Malory (Contributor), Clément Marot (Contributor), John Milton (Contributor), Grace Paley (Contributor), Prudentius (Contributor), Rainer Maria Rilke (Contributor), Edwin Arlington Robinson (Contributor), Christina Rossetti (Contributor), Saint Bonaventure (Contributor), Saki (Contributor), Sedulius (Contributor), William Shakespeare (Contributor), Christopher Smart (Contributor), Betty Smith (Contributor), Lee Smith (Contributor), Robert Southwell (Contributor), Henry Suso (Contributor), Johannes Tauler (Contributor), Edward Taylor (Contributor), Alfred Tennyson (Contributor), Tertullian (Contributor), Anthony Trollope (Contributor), Henry Vaughan (Contributor), Richard Wilbur (Contributor), George Wither (Contributor)

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This collection of Christmas literature--a selection of some of the best writings by authors from many times and places, including China, Syria, Egypt, France, Spain, England, Mexico, Canada, and the United States--enables readers to appreciate the dimensions of Jesus' birth. Works of art from the Far East, the Sudan, Russia, Hispanic America, and England underscore the universality of the story of Jesus. Chapters are arranged in chronological order and each is divided into literary genres--liturgy, sermon or treatise, drama, fiction, and poetry. Language in the early English work has been modernized, and several Latin, French, Spanish, and Arabic works are translated and published in English for the first time.… (more)

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