Run, Shepherds, Run: Poems for Advent and Christmas

by L. William Countryman

Publisher:

Morehouse Publishing

, 2005

Overview

The Advent season is filled with rich themes that have fascinated poets. In Run, Shepherds, Run, Bill Countryman presents a poem a day for devotional reading during Advent and the 12 days of Christmas. Readers will find classic poets they know and love, including George Herbert, John Donne, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson, as well as contemporary poets, known and unknown.

Run, Shepherds, Run includes helpful hints for reading poetry, for those who have less experience reading it than others, as well as useful annotations to help readers with older language that may not have easily apparent meanings for today’s readers.

Product Details

• Title: Run, Shepherds, Run: Poems for Advent and Christmas
• Author: L. William Countryman
• Publisher: Morehouse Publishing
• Print Publication Date: 2005
• Logos Release Date: 2015
• Pages: 112
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Christmas › Poetry; Christian poetry, English; Christian poetry, American; Advent › Poetry
• ISBNs: 9780819221513, 0819221511
• Resource ID: LLS:RNSHPHRDCHRSTMS
• Resource Type: text.monograph.poetry
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:45:38Z

About L. William Countryman

Sherman E. Johnson Professor Emeritus in Biblical Studies, Church Divinity School of the Pacific.