"In the Bleak Midwinter" is a Christmas carol based on a poem by the English poet Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) written before 1872 in response to a request from the magazine Scribner's Monthly for a Christmas poem. It was published posthumously in Rossetti's Poetic Works in 1904. The poem became a Christmas carol after it appeared in The English Hymnal in 1906 with a setting by Gustav Holst (1874-1934). Holst's setting, "Cranham", is titled after Cranham, Gloucestershire. It is included in The New Oxford Book of Carols (#111) with both Holst's setting and a similar one by Harold Darke.