cover image T'Was the Night Before Christmas and Other Seasonal Favorites

T'Was the Night Before Christmas and Other Seasonal Favorites

Metropolitan Museum of Art. ABRAMS, $16.95 (48pp) ISBN 978-0-8109-4592-0

Images from New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art share space with holiday poems in 'Twas the Night Before Christmas and Other Seasonal Favorites, ed. by Edward Lach. Illustrations range from 15th-century German stained glass to Arthur Rackham works, while the verse takes in not just Clement C. Moore but Ogden Nash, Joseph Brodsky, classic carols and more.