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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.
1823 in literature – The Pioneers – James Fenimore Cooper; Woe from Wit – Alexander Griboyedov; Twas the Night Before Christmas – Clement Clarke Moore; The Fountain of Bakhchisaray – Alexander Pushkin; Ourika – Claire de Duras; Seventy-Six — John Neal; 1824 in literature – Our Village – Mary Russell Mitford. Death of Lord Byron
The Christmas poem appears on pp. 217–19, credited to "Clement C. Moore". Moore stated in a letter to the editor of the New York American (published on March 1, 1844) that he "gave the publisher" of The New-York Book of Poetry "several pieces, among which was the 'Visit from St. Nicholas.'" Admitting that he wrote it "not for publication, but ...
Clement C. Moore “A Visit From St. Nicholas” also was published anonymously, and Moore wasn’t identified as the author until 1837. Saying he wrote it for his children, he included it in his ...
1823 in poetry – Birth of Sándor Petőfi, Hungarian national poet Winthrop Mackworth Praed is awarded the Chancellor's gold medal for an English Poem, Clement Clarke Moore A Visit from St. Nicholas; 1824 in poetry – Death of Lord Byron, important English Romantic poet; 1825 in poetry – Alexander Pushkin begins publishing Eugene Onegin in ...
The author, perhaps viewing this particular literary excursion as slumming it, was Clement Clarke Moore, who had hit upon the idea of a Christmas poem for the American masses the year prior when ...
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]
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.