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The first part of this episode basically serves as an introduction to the Christmas/holidays works that will be a a part of Celebrate Poe every night until December 26. “Rare Christmas Books” deals with valuable holiday publications, and serves as a background to the works that will be read during this holiday season.  The second part of this episode deals with the unreleased “Christmas with Edgar Allan Poe” - a bit about its history and several of its selections.  George will read the linear notes to the CD because they (it is hoped) say a great deal about Poe’s complicated relationship to the religion, music, and the holidays.

• What two authors wrote versions of “A Christmas Carol”
• How many episodes will be required for “A Christmas Carol” in this podcast?
• Why might it be difficult to edit a work like “A Christmas Carol”s
• Who wrote “The Night Before Christmas”
• Who wrote “The Gift of the Magi?’
• What did Poe think of Longfellow and Lowell?
• Where is the author of “A Set of Poe” from?”
• Who IS the author of “A Set of Poe”
• What is “Christmas with Edgar Allan Poe?”
• Who wrote “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring”
• Name a Poe story that was published in “The Gift”

• 00:00 Intro
• 00:40 Valuable Christmas books
• 3:40 A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
• 07:44 A Christmas Carol (James Russell Lowell)
• 09:22 The Night Before Christmas
• 09:49 The Gift of the Magi
• 10:18 I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• 11:08 The Bells (Edgar Allan Poe)
• 11:55 A Set of Poe (George Ade)
• 12:13 The Pit and the Pendulum
• 13:59 Christmas with Edgar Allan Poe CD
• 16:33 Christmas with Edgar Allan Poe Linear Notes
• 19:59 The Holly and the Ivy
• 23:25 Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
• 26:13 Ave Maria
• 28:34 Future Episodes
• 28:44 Sources
• 29:03 Outro and The First Noel music

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