Lyrics and Legends at Christmas Tide

Clinton Scollard's Lyrics and Legends at Christmas-Tide gathers poems and narrative pieces that treat Christmas as both sacred season and cultural memory. Moving between devotional lyric, fireside tale, and antiquarian legend, the volume evokes Nativity wonder, winter landscape, charitable feeling, and the inherited customs that gather around the feast. Its style is musical, decorous, and late-Victorian in its polish: regular measures, clear imagery, and a cultivated fondness for romance and moral sentiment place it within the genteel American verse tradition while looking back to medieval and folk sources of holiday lore. Scollard (1860-1932), an American poet, editor, and longtime man of letters associated with Hamilton College, wrote prolifically in an era when poetry still served public occasions and domestic ritual. His wide reading, travel, and interest in legend help explain the book's blend of literary refinement and seasonal storytelling. He approaches Christmas not merely as doctrine, but as an imaginative inheritance sustained by song, memory, and communal affection. Readers drawn to classic Christmas literature, traditional verse, or the history of holiday feeling will find this collection rewarding. It offers a graceful alternative to modern seasonal prose: earnest, melodious, and attentive to the symbolic richness of Christmas-Tide.

Pagina's: 128, Paperback, Sharp Ink