Christmas Poem (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: John O’Hara
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Work: Short story
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, United States or Americans, Parents and children, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Class consciousness, Poetry or poets, Pennsylvania, College life, Holidays, Christmas
- Locales: Pennsylvania
O’Hara is an acclaimed master of the short-story genre. His numerous stories of the 1930's and 1940's were, as a rule, very short. In the 1950's and 1960's, pieces he wrote became longer and less numerous (he did, however, still average more than one short story per month during the last ten years of his life). “Christmas Poem” is one of the later, longer stories. It was first published on December 19, 1964, in The New Yorker.
Billy Warden has just arrived home from Dartmouth College for the Christmas vacation. The setting is Gibbsville, Pennsylvania, during some...
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