![]() ![]() Again and again-at home, at school, on TV, everywhere-we heard and saw version after version after version of this poem until it became part of us. All the silly parodies we’ve heard over the years. However the poem came to be, I grew up with it, and likely so did you. ![]() In either history, Moore only acknowledged authorship when his children, who loved the poem, requested he include it in his 1844 anthology. ![]() Apparently, 190 years hasn’t changed all that much. Or, in another history, Professor Moore was an erudite and serious academic, and was worried that such a light-hearted piece would reflect poorly on him in the academic culture of the time. A retelling and reshaping of many old tales into one unified narrative for the ages. Nicholas,” the versified story of Christmas that gave America a good portion of its holiday folklore, was intended to be a gift. When Clement Clarke Moore wrote this poem in 1823-a poem once called “arguably the best-known verses ever written by an American 1”-he published it anonymously. ![]()
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