Who really wrote the classic Christmas recital poem?
#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3) Among the classics in our collection of Poems for Christmas is that old chestnut, “A Visit from St. Nicholas.” The poem is almost as familiar as the Happy Birthday song—who in the English-speaking world doesn’t know its opening lines? ’Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse… This poem has inspired endless parodies, many of them collected by David Emery, About.com Guide to Urban Legends. Its authorship has always been in it was originally published anonymously in 1823, then claimed by Clement Clark Moore 21 years later, but there has been a more recent campaign to correct that attribution and ascribe the poem to Henry Livingston, Jr. Just last week, Associated Press published an a
