TY - BOOK AU - Moore,Clement Clarke AU - Smith,Jessie Willcox TI - Twas the Night before Christmas: A Visit from St. Nicholas AV - PZPS PY - 2005/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Santa Claus -- Juvenile poetry KW - Christmas -- Juvenile poetry KW - Narrative poetry KW - Children's poetry, American N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Visit_from_St._Nicholas; Release date is 2005-11-22; Janet Blenkinship, Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team; Original publication data not identified N2 - "'Twas the Night before Christmas: A Visit from St. Nicholas" by Clement Clarke Moore is a poem first published anonymously in 1823. On Christmas Eve, a father witnesses a magical visitor arrive by sleigh and reindeer, bounding down the chimney to deliver presents and fill stockings. This beloved work transformed American ideas about Santa Claus and Christmas gift-giving, though its authorship sparked controversy between Moore and Henry Livingston Jr. The poem has been called "arguably the best-known verses ever written by an American." (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17135 ER -