In honor of the upcoming holiday season and the Englewood Press release of My Little King: George MacDonald’s Christmas Stories and Songs, enjoy three George MacDonald Christmas poems …
Before there was C.S. Lewis or J.R.R. Tolkien, there was George MacDonald. Born in Scotland in 1824, George MacDonald was one of the most prolific and influential writers of the Victorian era, publishing more than 50 volumes in the almost half-century of his writing career….The BBC has called him “the founding father of modern fantasy writing, with notable works including Phantastes and The Princess and the Goblin.
Over time, MacDonald’s name and prominence faded, but his influence on the more well-known writers and artists who followed him endured. Of his experience reading MacDonald’s fantasy classic, Phantastes, C.S. Lewis wrote, “I knew that I had crossed a great frontier,” and in 1946 compiled an anthology of MacDonald’s writing. Madeleine L’Engle once described him as, “the grandfather of…all of us who struggle to come to terms with truth through imagination.” (excerpted from the Introduction to My Little King: George MacDonald’s Christmas Stories and Songs, available now in paperback and digital).
Here are three superb Christmas poems by George MacDonald …
“The Christmas Child”
George MacDonald
Found in:
My Little King: George MacDonald’s
Christmas Stories and Songs
“Little one, who straight hast come
Down the heavenly stair,
Tell us all about your home,
And the father there.”
“He is such a one as I,
Like as like can be.
Do his will, and, by and by,
Home and him you’ll see.”
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