Christmas Songs
THINGS which are trivial and even absurd are frequently known to call up tender and pleasant recollections and the best recollections of all centre around the family hearth at Christmastide. It is probably owing to this "homing instinct" that Christmas songs owe their preservation and thei...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | The Academy, 1914 1914, 1903-12 (1648), p.641-642 |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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| Zusammenfassung: | THINGS which are trivial and even absurd are frequently known to call up tender and pleasant recollections and the best recollections of all centre around the family hearth at Christmastide. It is probably owing to this "homing instinct" that Christmas songs owe their preservation and their popularity. Not but what many of them are very beautiful in themselves and have an intense interest of their own. |
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| ISSN: | 0269-3321 |