Twas the Night Before Christmas: A Visit from St. Nicholas (Illustrated) - FLT Classics

by Clement Clarke Moore, Jessie Willcox Smith (Illustrator), FLT (Compiler)

Overview

1912 edition of the poem, illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.

"A Visit from St. Nicholas", also known as "The Night Before Christmas" and "Twas the Night Before Christmas" from its first line, is a poem first published anonymously in 1823 and generally attributed to Clement Clarke Moore.

The poem, which has been called "arguably the best-known verses ever written by an American", is largely responsible for some of the conceptions of Santa Claus from the mid-nineteenth century to today. Prior to the poem, American ideas about St. Nicholas and other Christmastide visitors varied considerably.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016111711
Publisher:	FLT
Publication date:	05/16/2016
Series:	Christmas Books
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	559 KB
Age Range:	6 - 12 Years

About the Author

Clement Clarke Moore (July 15, 1779 – July 10, 1863) was an American professor of Oriental and Greek literature at Columbia College, now Columbia University. He donated land from his family estate for the foundation of the General Theological Seminary, where he was a professor of Biblical learning and compiled a two-volume Hebrew dictionary. He is generally considered to be the author of the yuletide poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas", which later became famous as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas".