A literary Christmas

Before Christmas: A visit from St Nicholas / Clement Clarke Moore

from The Feast of St Friend / Arnold Bennett

The gypsy / Edward Thomas

from Sons and lovers / D.H. Lawrence

from Cider with Rosie / Laurie Lee

from The River Duddon / William Wordsworth

from Wuthering Heights / Emily Bronte

from A Christmas Carol / Charles Dickens

The oxen / Thomas Hardy

Bertie's Christmas Eve / Saki.

The Nativity: A Christmas carol / Christina Rossetti

from On the morning of Christ's Nativity / John Milton

from The Virgin Mary to the Child Jesus / Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A Christmas Carol / G.K. Chesterton

Nativity / John Donne.

Christmas day: from his Diary / Samuel Pepys

Music on Christmas morning / Anne Bronte

from Orley Farm / Anthony Trollope

Christmas at sea / Robert Louis Stevenson

from The mill on the Floss / George Eliot

Christmas in India / Rudyard Kipling

The mistletoe bough / Thomas Haynes Bayly

from Christmas pudding / Nancy Mitford.

Christmas fare: from "Old Christmas" in The sketch book of Washington Irving / Washington Irving

from A Christmas carol / Charles Dickens

Christmas husbandly fare, from Five hundred pointes of good husbandrie / Thomas Tusser

Talking turkeys!! / Benjamin Zephaniah

Another Christmas carol / P.G. Wodehouse.

Christmas at war: Christmas bells / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A Christmas ghost-story / Thomas Hardy

A Christmas prayer / Cyril Winterbotham

The truce of Christmas / G.K. Chesterton

The holly on the wall / W.H. Davies.

A child's Christmas: from A child's Christmas in Wales / Dylan Thomas

from The Wind in the Willows / Kenneth Grahame

The carol of the poor children / Richard Middleton

from Little Women / Louisa May Alcott

The lost boy / George Mackay Brown.

Seasonal snow and ice: from his Diary / John Evelyn

from Trivia, or, The art of walking the streets of London / John Gay

from English hours / Henry James

from As you like it / William Shakespeare

from Emma / Jane Austen

The mahogany tree / William Makepeace Thackeray

from The Pickwick papers / Charles Dickens.

New Year: Dirge for the year / Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ceremony upon Candlemas Eve / Robert Herrick

Sonnet / Thomas Hood

Ring out, wild bells, from In memoriam / Alfred Tennyson.