The “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” poem was first published anonymously on Dec. 23, 1823, in The Sentinel, a newspaper based in Troy, New York. An instant success, ...

The famous words "'Twas the night before Christmas" shaped the holiday by popularizing stockings, reindeer, and even Santa Claus. But the classic poem also sparked a centuries-long controversy.

The “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” poem was first published anonymously on Dec. 23, 1823, in The Sentinel, a newspaper based in Troy, New York.An instant success, the poem was ...

Now just a looking-back: frost in April’s eye. Highway left behind. Lights stacked ahead. I sip it as I drive on, and in traveling it shifts from ahead to gone in the twitch of a kiss that never ...

The jovial playful 17th century poet Robert Herrick, who wrote many poems about the pleases of drink, sex and the playful sensuous life, was also a clergyman. Herrick wrote a Christmas carol to ...

The poem, of course, was “A Visit From St. Nicholas” (“The Night Before Christmas”). ’Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a ...

From the Archives: ‘Christmas Poem’ by e. e. cummings In a 1956 Atlantic issue showcasing poetry, cummings offered a modernist take on the familiar story of Jesus’s birth. December 25, 2018 ...

Can the saga of the 2016 election be summarized in poetry? One journalist has given it a shot. Click here for important updates to our privacy policy. ... 2016 as told through a Christmas poem.

For more than 100 years, generations of children have enjoyed listening to their parents read the classic poem, "The Night Before Christmas." Robert Sabuda, ...

N E W  Y O R K, Dec. 24 -- It's days before Christmas, and children, and their nostalgic parents, can finally nestle snug in their beds. After years shadowed by accusations of plagiarism, the ...

Christmas poem bought for $280,000 NEW YORK, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- An unidentified New York media executive purchased an original copy of a famed Christmas poem for $280,000.