A review by schellenbergk
Christmas Poems by

Hmmm... not as charmed as I hoped I would be. The Night Before Christmas remains the perfect Christmas poem. Many of the others grate by being too maudlin or sanctimonious. The inclusion of lyrics of very familiar carols just makes one wonder why this one and not that?

Many of the poems by famous names strike me as their lesser efforts. But the collection somewhat recovers in the After Christmas section at the end, to me the best part of the book.