Who Wrote the Night Before Christmas?: Analyzing the Clement Clarke Moore vs. Henry Livingston Question (Paperback)

from Wesley_Theobald

This in-depth work on the famous poem is described by the highly qualified author as a 'short monograph' whose aim is to 'establish the truth of the matter, or, at the very least, to determine where the probabilities lie,' in relation to the work's question. This is an apt quick description, as t...

from moibibliomaniac

Most people, including myself, have always attributed the poem The Night Before Christmas to Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863). The poem was first published in the Troy Sentinel, a newspaper in upstate New York on December 23, 1823. But Moore never publicly acknowledged being its author until his ...

from RaucousRain

Before reading this book, I was aware of the question as to whether Clement C. Moore or Henry Livingston had originally written "The Night Before Christmas." However, I never expected the degree of specifics that Jackson includes in his book. An impressive amount of research went into this study....

from tdwells82

I had no idea about the Moore or Livingston debate of who wrote the poem. I have found this book to be an easy read and interesting. This book includes appendices on Henry Livingston's selected poetry and prose and lists of poems of Livingston and Moore.

from Wesley_Theobald

This in-depth work on the famous poem is described by the highly qualified author as a 'short monograph' whose aim is to 'establish the truth of the matter, or, at the very least, to determine where the probabilities lie,' in relation to the work's question. This is an apt quick description, as t...