200 Years of Twas the Night - UI Podcast #185

Useless Information Podcast

Airwave Media Podcast Network

History, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

December 24, 2022, marks the bicentennial of the classic poem Twas the Night Before Christmas. Pamela McColl, author of the new book Twas the Night, The Art and History of the Classic Christmas Poem, joins me to discuss the origins of the poem, the debate over who truly wrote it, and how it has gone on to be the most published and most often recited poem in the library of English literature. Transcript, images, and links for this episode: https://uselessinformation.org/200-years-of-twas-the-night-podcast-185/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an airwave media podcast.
0:04.0	Caution.
0:05.0	The ultimate spicy meatball from Domino's is hot.
0:08.2	Just not stupid hot.
0:09.2	It won't earn you mythical status or get you a nickname like Mad Dog or Dragon's Breath.
0:14.2	It's hot.
0:15.2	Good hot.
0:16.2	The kind of hot that boosts taste nothing else.
0:18.0	The ultimate spicy meatball with Siracha Drizzle from Domino's, it will get you fired
0:22.0	up.
0:23.0	Subject to availability.
0:26.0	Tows the night before Christmas went all through the house.
0:28.8	Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
0:32.3	Those famous two lines serve as the introduction to what it's believed to be the most red,
0:36.3	recited, reprinted, and collected work in all of English literature.
0:42.2	But did you know that it was first written on Christmas Eve 200 years ago this year?
0:47.1	That's December 24th of 1822 and was first published one year later by the Troy Sentinel
0:53.1	in where else Troy New York, with its real title of a count of a visit from St. Nicholas.
1:01.1	Most credit clemen Clark Moore is having authored the poem, although others are attributed
1:04.6	to Henry Livingston, Jr.
1:07.2	So just who did write the poem?
1:09.3	And how, in the days before telegraphy and railroads, did a poem get from Moore's Chelsea
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