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fire, and sat himself down and smoked; and as he smoked, the smoke from his pipe ascended into the air and spread like a cloud overhead. And Oloffe bethought him, and he hastened and climbed up to the top of one of the tallest trees, and saw that the smoke spread over a great extent of country; and as he considered it more attentively, he fancied that the great volume of smoke assumed a variety of marvelous forms, where in dim obscurity he saw shadowed out palaces and domes and lofty spires, all of which lasted but a moment, and then faded away, until the whole rolled off, and nothing but the green woods were left. And when St. Nicholas had smoked his pipe, he twisted it in his hatband, and laying his finger beside his nose, gave the astonished Van
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library. The fourth copy, written out and signed by
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And the sage Oloffe dreamed a dream,‍—‌and lo, the good St. Nicholas came riding over the tops of the trees, in that self-same wagon wherein he brings his yearly presents to children, and he descended hard by where the heroes of
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American poetry he had compiled. Moore himself acknowledged authorship when he included it in his own book of poems in 1844. By then, the original publisher and at least seven others had already acknowledged his authorship.
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Victorianization of Christmas. Kaller claims that Foster cherry-picked only the poems that fit his thesis and that many of Moore's unpublished works have a tenor, phraseology, and meter similar to "A Visit". Moore had even written a letter titled "From Saint Nicholas" that may have predated
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as the preferred genteel family holiday of the season, but some
Protestants viewed Christmas as the result of "Catholic ignorance and deception" and still had reservations. By having Saint Nicholas arrive the night before, Moore "deftly shifted the focus away from Christmas Day with its
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hanging by the fireplace, and laughs to himself. They share a conspiratorial moment before Santa bounds up the chimney again. As he flies away, Santa calls out "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night."
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from Troy". Moore preferred to be known for his more scholarly works, but allowed the poem to be included in his anthology in 1844 at the request of his children.
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TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS,' A NEW, ORIGINAL MOVIE PREMIERING DECEMBER 17, ON HALLMARK CHANNEL"
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Analyzing Christmas in Film: Santa to the Supernatural
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2227:"The Night Before Christmas": Who Wrote It?
1922:. St. Louis Post Dispatch. 1 December 2017.
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1691:"Fred Waring - The Meaning of Christmas"
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2044:"IMDB Twas the Night Before Christmas"
1851:. Government Institutes. p. 148.
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2174:. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press.
1872:Scott Allen Nollen (1 January 2004).
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986:National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
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263:Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas
90:Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas
1817:Louis Armstrong: An American Genius
1123:. Oxford University Press. p.
1055:List of Christmas-themed literature
590:, not Moore, was the poem's author.
392:In 1842, the noted poet and editor
238:project in 1934 by Helmuth F. Thoms
865:Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians
528:Selections from The American Poets
269:, who claimed authorship in 1837.
265:" in 1823 and later attributed to
30:"The Night Before Christmas" and "
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1845:David Stricklin (16 April 2010).
1204:Stedman, Edmund Clarence (1900).
1159:Santa Claus, Last of the Wild Men
965:which brokered the private sale.
949:Copy of the poem hand-written by
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3441:Old Santeclaus with Much Delight
2218:. New York: Morehouse-Gorham Co.
2212:Patterson, Samuel White (1956).
1900:"Jo Stafford 1955 Happy Holiday"
1411:from the original on 16 May 2008
1207:An American Anthology, 1787-1900
1049:Old Santeclaus with Much Delight
625:
426:An American Anthology, 1787–1900
213:
32:'Twas the Night Before Christmas
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2289:Twas The Night Before Christmas
1027:Twas the Night Before Christmas
1012:Twas the Night Before Christmas
636:needs additional citations for
578:Evidence in favor of Livingston
503:appeared under Moore's name in
255:Twas the Night Before Christmas
3526:Bronner's Christmas Wonderland
3455:Christmas Day in the Workhouse
2838:Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
2617:Legend of the Christmas Spider
2097:Jackson, MacDonald P. (2016).
1506:Jackson, MacDonald P. (2016).
1349:Museum of the City of New York
1254:, Representative Poetry Online
878:Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
834:, a professor emeritus at the
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4326:Works of uncertain authorship
3477:Christmas television specials
3376:The New Oxford Book of Carols
2463:Annunciation to the shepherds
2279:"A Visit from Saint Nicholas"
2197:. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
1216:2027/loc.ark:/13960/t72v36z23
246:", routinely referred to as "
4341:Works subject to expurgation
3531:Christmas and holiday season
2281:From the Collections at the
2189:Nissenbaum, Stephen (1997).
840:Royal Society of New Zealand
494:General Theological Seminary
257:" from its first line, is a
4336:Works published anonymously
2168:Marshall, Nancy H. (2002).
1957:New-York Historical Society
1953:"A Visit from St. Nicholas"
1228:Mann, Ted. "Ho, Ho, Hoax,"
958:New-York Historical Society
842:, authored a book in 2016,
660:"A Visit from St. Nicholas"
556:Protestant Episcopal Church
536:New-York Historical Society
517:The New-York Book of Poetry
505:The New-York Book of Poetry
236:Public Works Administration
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4218:The Night Before Christmas
4169:The Night Before Christmas
4161:The Night Before Christmas
2443:Adoration of the Shepherds
2005:Rosewarne, Lauren (2017).
1878:. McFarland. p. 192.
1489:Washington Irving (1868).
1407:. Intermedia Enterprises.
483:Evidence in favor of Moore
248:The Night Before Christmas
29:
4145:A Visit from St. Nicholas
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3687:WWE Tribute to the Troops
3448:A Visit from St. Nicholas
3369:The Oxford Book of Carols
2945:Feast of the Seven Fishes
2508:Massacre of the Innocents
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2310:14 September 2020 at the
1933:"Search: lucian dressel/"
1760:Vance, Margaret Shelley.
1401:"Clement Moore Revisited"
1336:The Poet of Christmas Eve
1334:Patterson, Samuel White.
1157:Siefker, Phyllis (1997).
1115:Restad, Penne L. (1995).
501:A Visit from St. Nicholas
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3489:Apollo 8 Genesis reading
2127:. New York: Henry Holt.
1762:"Margaret Shelley Vance"
1363:2.4 (January 1915): 111.
1308:The Battle for Christmas
1295:Troy's One Hundred Years
1250:15 December 2005 at the
730:Pen, Ink & Evidence,
4311:Christmas short stories
4177:The Spirit of Christmas
3651:Small Business Saturday
3521:Black Friday (shopping)
3516:Black Friday (partying)
3010:Nine Lessons and Carols
2940:Events and celebrations
1822:Oxford University Press
1479:January 2000, pp. 26–29
1325:(January 1919): 111–15.
1284:Winter 2003, 55;1:5–15.
615:James Hadley Billington
544:New-York Book of Poetry
430:Edmund Clarence Stedman
4321:Santa Claus's reindeer
4316:Santa Claus in fiction
3295:Post-War United States
1378:New York State Library
1267:. January 2000. 26–29.
1043:Santa Claus's reindeer
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836:University of Auckland
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3344:Hit singles in the US
3339:Hit singles in the UK
2900:Carols by Candlelight
2828:Santa Claus' daughter
2436:Adoration of the Magi
2305:(Poem) – Text | Video
1306:Nissenbaum, Stephen.
1297:(Troy, NY, 1891), 97.
1293:Weise, Arthur James.
1004:Falling for Christmas
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806:A History of New York
611:Librarian of Congress
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394:William Cullen Bryant
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4140:Clement Clarke Moore
3636:Santa's Candy Castle
2960:Google Santa Tracker
2256:Jessie Willcox Smith
2015:. pp. 132–133.
1918:Sarah Bryan Miller.
1477:Autograph Collector,
1119:Christmas in America
951:Clement Clarke Moore
893:(b. 2005). In 1953,
838:and a fellow at the
832:MacDonald P. Jackson
755:Battle for Christmas
645:improve this article
600:Jessie Willcox Smith
588:Henry Livingston Jr.
532:The Poets of America
466:Henry Livingston Jr.
363:Clement Clarke Moore
337:Clement Clarke Moore
267:Clement Clarke Moore
150:Anapestic tetrameter
60:Clement Clarke Moore
4236:Christmas Mountains
4210:Musical adaptations
4153:Film and television
3641:Santa Claus Village
3556:Christmas Mountains
3462:Journey of the Magi
2468:Baptism of the Lord
2295:7 June 2019 at the
2283:Library of Congress
1983:The Washington Post
1729:secondhandsongs.com
1265:Autograph Collector
1230:Scarsdale Magazine,
850:Musical adaptations
460:, who used textual
353:, December 23, 1823
3751:Twelve-dish supper
3601:Jews and Christmas
3551:Christmas Lectures
3280:American Civil War
3015:NORAD Tracks Santa
2391:Saint Nicholas Day
2223:Sonne, Niels Henry
2074:. 28 November 2022
1701:on 2 November 2020
1667:on 2 November 2020
1546:on 2 November 2020
1437:The New York Times
1399:Christoph, Peter.
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3362:Carols for Choirs
2905:Cavalcade of Magi
2885:Boar's Head Feast
2554:Star of Bethlehem
2525:Nativity of Jesus
2513:flight into Egypt
2398:St. Stephen's Day
2260:Project Gutenberg
1885:978-0-7864-1857-2
1858:978-1-56663-931-6
1831:978-0-19-536507-8
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