![]() ![]() ![]() “Not proud?” you exclaim, “How can that be?!” Well, he wasn’t ashamed of it, either, it’s just that men of his time and place and station had a different system of values 200 years ago, and Moore had much else to be proud of, not the least of which included creating the neighborhood of Chelsea. After all, he wasn’t exactly proud of it. (A vocal but small minority believes the author to have been Major Henry Beekman Livingston, Jr., but thereby hangs a tangent that could occupy us until next Christmas.) The poem was initially published anonymously Moore didn’t acknowledge authorship until 1837. ’Twas the Night Before Christmas, one of the best-known and best-loved pieces of American literature in the world. | If the public knows only one thing about Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863), it’s that he is widely held to be the author of the 1823 poem A Visit from St. | Image from The New York Public LibraryīY TRAV S.D. ![]() “He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf.” Children’s book illustration by Jessie Wilcox Smith (1863-1935). ![]()
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