A Visit from Santa Claus

Book Id: WPLBN0000580402
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File Size: 1.05 MB
Reproduction Date: 2007

Title:	A Visit from Santa Claus
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Children's literature, Children's fiction
Collections:	Children's Literature Collection
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Publisher:	World Public Library Association


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Summary
Better known by its first line, 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, this poem was first published anonymously in the Troy Sentinel in New York in 1823 and is traditionally credited to Clement Clarke Moore (1779–1863), a New York scholar and professor of Oriental and Greek literature, who included it in his collected poems in 1844. The narrator, awake on Christmas Eve, sees St. Nicholas arrive on a miniature sleigh drawn by eight tiny reindeer, whom he calls by name, come down the chimney, fill the stockings and rise back up the chimney with a nod before flying off with a cheerful goodbye. The poem did more than any other work to fix the modern picture of Santa Claus as a jolly, plump, pipe-smoking figure who visits on Christmas Eve, and it remains one of the best-known verses in American literature. Its authorship has sometimes been claimed for Henry Livingston Jr., though Moore's name is the one usually attached to it.

Excerpt
Excerpt: Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring not even a mouse, The stockings were hung by the chimney with care in hopes that...