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Clement Clarke Moore (July 15, 1779 – July 10, 1863) was an American writer, scholar and real estate developer. He is best known as author of the Christmas poem " A Visit from St. Nicholas ", which first named each of Santa Claus's reindeer .
Clement Clarke Moore, author of "Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas" The original publication of "Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas" in the Troy Sentinel, December 23, 1823. The authorship of A Visit is credited to Clement Clarke Moore who is said to have composed it on a snowy winter's day during a shopping trip on a sleigh.
Published in the same city as Washington Irving's earlier portrait of Santa Claus in Knickerbocker's History of New York, the poem may have directly inspired another New Yorker, Clement Clarke Moore, to create the modern Santa in "'Twas the Night before Christmas". [4]
Clement Clarke Moore’s day job was weighty – and more spiritual – than a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer would indicate, however. From 1821 to 1850, he was a professor of Greek and ...
Clement Clarke Moore (September 18, 1843 – December 15, 1910) [1] was an American architect and soldier who was prominent in New York society during the Gilded Age.
The poem, generally attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, was published anonymously by the Troy Sentinel on December 23, 1823. In July 2012, Gramercy Communications moved their corporate offices into the former home of the Troy Sentinel. The company paid a grant to Troy Public Library to digitize the full collection of the newspaper.
Its half-hour showing time is divided into two marionette segments, one dramatizing Clement Clarke Moore's 1823 poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" and one telling the story of the Nativity. [1] The live-action part of the film features Alexander Scourby, who narrates and also plays Clement Moore in the Visit from St. Nicholas segment.
December 23 – Clement Clarke Moore's poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas", also known as "Twas the Night Before Christmas" from its first line, is first published (anonymously) in the Troy, New York, Sentinel, and then other newspapers this year and is largely responsible for the American conception of the character he introduces named as "Santa ...