The poem was inspired by Child’s memories of visiting her grandparents’ home in Medford, not far from where “Jingle Bells” is said to have been written. Resident Barbara North recalled ...

On New Year’s Day, or thereabouts, I have the habit of reading “Ring out wild bells,” the Tennyson poem, from In Memoriam. In my book, it’s not only a great New Year’s poem — it’s a ...

The song that we now know as the Carol of the Bells began its life in Ukraine as a song called Shchedryk, by the composer Mykola Leontovych. Or, actually, it began its life a little earlier than that.