The most oft-recited Christmas poem is probably Clement Clarke Moore’s “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” which set the standard for the classic American Santa Claus goodie-drop as we’ve come to know it. By ...

Not everyone knows this, but William Shakespeare had a distant cousin who was also a poet -- the now-sainted Robert Southwell. Robert was a priest in the 17th century, when it was illegal to be a ...

If I were to package together all my favorite Christmas poems, wrapping them up for my friends and placing them under the tree, which would I choose? Having asked myself this question, I set about ...

How can a Christmas poem do something new or unexpected? In the 17th century, the English poet Robert Herrick wrote a Christmas carol, to be sung to the King in Whitehall. Herrick's poem presents the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While the best days of the holidays are sentimental and sweet, the worst ones can be stressful and frustrating. So when the ...

What makes a Christmas poem? It could be a drift of snow or some evergreen trees, a box of candy canes or the baby Jesus. The best-known poem attending to the holiday is probably “A Visit from St.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But you know as well as we do that the most wonderful parts of Christmas—the traditions you and your family have cherished for ...

e. e. Cummings (1894-1962) was an American poet and, like Robert Frost, one of the most-read American poets of the 20th century. He also worked as a painter, essayist and playwright (his most popular ...

In early 2013, fans of the epic fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien received exciting news: Two previously lost poems by the Oxford don had been discovered in an obscure, 1936 school journal. Given ...

Last year at roughly this time, as astute Sun readers will recall, we featured “In the Bleak Midwinter,” by Christina Rossetti (1830–1894), to herald the coming of Christmas. As we noted with that ...

Wishing you and all a very happy holiday season. Please enjoy the following poem. “A Visit from St. Nicholas” by Clement Clarke Moore. “‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house / ...

Nomura Securities chief economist David Resler has penned his latest holiday poem, featuring the Grinch as a home-mortgage lender and hope that a "brighter future will start this Christmas Day."He ...