The story of how the “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” poem surfaced in the Sentinel is also open to some interpretation. How Did the Sentinel Get the Poem in 1823? Descriptions of Moore indicate that he was somewhat stern and humorless or, at the very least, his reputation was usually more of a serious one. In the same preface, Moore did go into detail in regards to lighter aspects to life in general. Many people consider this to be an example of ‘case-closed’, and they do not consider that perhaps history might be wrong. In a substantial preface, Moore revealed that he wrote the collections of poems at various points during his lifetime. In it was a version of the now fabled classic. Then it disappeared out of the public domain until sometime in 1844, when a New York publisher, Bartlett, and Welford, released a book of poetry that Clement Clarke Moore authored. The Christmas poem surfaced in newspapers another couple of times in the following 6 or 7 years. Original printing of “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” in the Troy Sentinel. We hope our little patrons, both lads and lassies, will accept it as a proof of our unfeigned good will towards them-as a token of our warmest wish that they may have many a Merry Christmas that they may long retain their beautiful relish for those unbought homebred joys which derive their flavor from filial piety and fraternal love, and which they may be assured are the least alloyed that time can furnish them and that they may never part with that simplicity of character which is their own fairest ornament and for the sake of which they have been pronounced by Authority which none can gainsay, types of such of us as shall inherit the kingdom of heaven. There is, to our apprehension, a spirit of cordial goodness in it, a playfulness of fancy and a benevolent alacrity to enter into the feelings and promote the simple pleasures of children which are altogether charming. We know not to whom we are indebted for the following description of that unwearied patron of music-that homely and delightful personage of parental kindness, Santa Claus, his costumes, and his equipage, as he goes about visiting the firesides of this happy land, laden with Christmas bounties but from whomsoever it may have come, we give thanks for it. When it was originally published in the Troy Sentinel of New York, two days before Christmas in 1823, editor, Orville Holley, admitted in print the following: Publications of the Classic Christmas Poem First Print 1823
“‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” story book originated as a poem from the 1820s.
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